Prominent mapmaker Simon G. Elliott drew the map about two years after the battle, just before Union soldiers were reinterred in the newly-established Antietam National Cemetery and before ...

SHARPSBURG, Md. — Whether you're one of the estimated 362,000 annual visitors to Antietam National Battlefield or a local resident driving by the national park, you've probably seen the cast ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Antietam National Battlefield has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2012 Tour. Most appearances with Bill Scanlan ( 4 ), Ted Alexander ...

The National Park Service said in a statement Tuesday afternoon that the event cannot be held at the battlefield this summer because of ongoing work to renovate a visitors center.

Antietam National Battlefield is one of my favorite Civil War sites, even though it appears my ancestor missed this fight, the bloodiest day of any battles in the war. About 23,000 soldiers were ...

Battlefield Burial A sailor who died in the suspected terrorist bombing of the U.S.S. Cole will be buried at Antietam National Cemetery -- a Civil War cemetery that has been closed since the ...

Andrew Banasik will become superintendent at Antietam National Battlefield on May 19, 2024. The Battle of Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history.