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'So we don't forget': Sharpsburg students lay 5,000 flags at Antietam National Cemetery
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNot quite as neat as the soldiers who marched the same grounds 180 years prior, the 50 children...
Antietam: For 4.5 million Americans, our ugliest day signaled a first step to freedom
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFor the better part of 160 years, military historians have been poring over the movements of Union...
Reopened Antietam visitor center to show 'causes … consequences of the American Civil War'
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFor the National Park Service team responsible for planning the updates to the recently reopened...
Civic organizations petition to bring Salute to Independence back to Antietam Battlefield
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWashington County economic and tourism officials went public over the weekend with an effort to get the National Park Service to reconsider and allow the Maryland Symphony Orchestra's Salute ...
This home was in the line of fire in 1862. Preservationists helped it dodge another bullet
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 10 months agoSHARPSBURG — For more than 160 years, this south county town's connection with the Civil War has...
Best Driving Vacations 2024: Take a Battlefield Tour of Pennsylvania and Maryland
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 3 months agoToday we continue on our journey highlighting four of the best driving destinations from central...
23,000 casualties. 160 years. Three weekends of remembrance at Antietam
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSHARPSBURG — Sept. 17 marks the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, fought among the cornfields in southern Washington County as America struggled through divisions that threatened ...
Memorial Day events in the local Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia area
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 1 month agoHere are some of the Memorial Day events occurring in the Tri-State area, starting this weekend....
House for sale near site of the ‘deadliest one-day battle’ in US history. See inside
Miami Herald via AOL· 2 years agoBased on its charming, sunshine yellow exterior with bright blue window shutters, you wouldn’t know...
'This is a great story': Hagerstown, sculptor, finalizing plans for Clara Barton tribute
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWork is progressing on the establishment of a memorial in Hagerstown honoring Clara Barton, known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" who came to the aid of injured soldiers during the Civil War ...