Antietam

In 2011, four years after my tour in Iraq, I walked the Antietam battlefield to remember.

A trip to the Antietam battlefield reminds an Iraq veteran of the friends he lost overseas.

Landscape Turned Red By Stephen Sears As a battle, Antietam might be called a draw.

He learned about Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Manassas, and Antietam.

If 2004 was Antietam, 2008—for liberals, at least—was Juneteenth.

It won glory at South Mountain, and made the narrow bridge of Antietam forever historic.

So, just before the battle of Antietam, we were in Washington.

Funkstown is located on Little Antietam creek, about seventy miles west of Baltimore.

The next day, at nightfall, the Federals were facing Lee's army, the Antietam creek flowing between the hostile ranks.

Thomas was killed in the Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862.