Antietam National Battlefield is a National Park Service protected area along Antietam Creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland which commemorates the American Civil War Battle of Antietam that occurred on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andrew Banasik, superintendent at Monocacy National Battlefield, will leave his post to become Antietam National Battlefield’s ...

“The 6,300 to 6,500 Union and Confederate soldiers killed and mortally wounded near the Maryland village of Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862, were more than twice the number of fatalities suffered in ...

It's been 162 years since the tranquil farmlands around Sharpsburg were invaded by two massive armies in a battle that had national and international consequences. But did you know there was another ...

The American Battlefield Trust and the Antietam Institute are hosting a family event at Antietam National Battlefield. The Generations event is scheduled for 2:30 to 5 p.m. Sept. 7, according to a ...

The grounds of Antietam were not new to Rhonda Smith, who lives in Keedysville. She walked them almost daily, in fact. But something stood out to her as she passed the pond behind the Roulette Farm at ...

On Sept. 17, 1862, more than 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing in just 12 hours during the Civil War. It was the bloodiest day in the nation’s history, and it happened at nearby Antietam ...

Washington 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 to ...

SHARPSBURG, Md., SEPT. 17 -- Here, too, anguished families came when the day was over, searching for missing loved ones. From field hospital to field hospital, they went: Have you seen my son? they ...

For the better part of 160 years, military historians have been poring over the movements of Union and Confederate soldiers through southern Washington County in the waning days of the summer of 1862 ...

Millie and I camped last week at Greenbrier State Park on South Mountain, 100 miles west of Annapolis and 1,000 feet up from sea level. Millie had just turned 2 years old and she, like me, seemed ...