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A YEAR AFTER.(anniversary of 9/11 attacks)
On September 17, 1862, in the Maryland village of Sharpsburg, in the fields between Antietam Creek and the Potomac River, forces of the Union Army defeated Confederate troops under General Robert E. Lee. By nightfall, some five thousand men were dead. Of nearly twenty thousand wounded, one in ten would soon succumb. On that day, the bloodiest in the nation's history, more Americans were killed than in all the other wars fought by the United States between the Continental victory at Yorktown, in 1781, and the landing of the American Expeditionary Force in France, in 1917. By the morning of September 18th, Antietam was a vision of hell. As James M. McPherson writes in ...
- The battle of Antietam // Developers closing in on Civil War site
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Deb Riechmann December 20, 1987 700+ words
...been some progress." Could Antietam end up looking like Gettysburg...Abraham Lincoln traveled to the Antietam battlefield to confer with...War Roundtables across the United States, and, after several court...Meanwhile, the Save Historic Antietam Foundation has continued to...
- The lesson of Antietam. (9.11.01).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: American Scholar McPherson, James M. January 1, 2002 700+ words
...The battle of Antietam also proved a...preserved the United States as one nation...the now dis-United States as proof of what...the battle of Antietam, the conservative...belief that the United States could never be...
- Fate of Private Land Inside Antietam Battlefield Studied
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post February 25, 1988 700+ words
...scenic easement program at Antietam. Rambur said that in the...authorized for the program. The Antietam federal park near Sharpsburg...Northeast, and perhaps the United States. Unlike other Civil War battlefield...most of the landscape at Antietam remains unchanged since the...
- Antietam student wins scholarship trip to Germany: Antietam student wins...
- Newspaper article from: Reading Eagle (Reading, PA) May 19, 2006 700+ words
May 19--Lauren Haufler , a junior at Antietam High School, was selected by a faculty...awarded to the school by the Goethe Institut. Antietam was one of seven schools across the United States and Canada to received the institute Award...
- EMR, Raising the Bar on Physician Compensation; Antietam Health Service Heralds...
- Press release article from: Business Wire September 23, 2002 700+ words
...Services, Hagerstown, MD. Antietam has 15 physician offices with...and five retail pharmacies. Antietam tackled EMR implementation...says Dr. Dan McDougal, Antietam's Medical Director. McDougal...healthcare IT companies in the United States. The company designs, develops...
- Antietam Samaritan no longer unknown.(SATURDAY)(THE CIVIL WAR)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times February 8, 2003 700+ words
...most major battles of the Civil War, Antietam had its good Samaritans - ordinary people...military history began - at the Battle of Antietam. Union Gen. George B. McClellan...remained a mystery. When veterans of Antietam spread the heroic story, the War Department...
- Animal Planet and Antietam Cable TV Take Western Maryland Families On a...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 8, 2002 700+ words
...their families when Animal Planet and Antietam Cable TV bring the live, non-broadcast...Hager, president and general manager, Antietam Cable TV. "Not only are we committed...the animal world. "Animal Planet and Antietam Cable TV recognize the importance of...
- `Antietam: The Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War' by James M....
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Dunkelman, Mark October 9, 2002 700+ words
"Antietam: The Battle That Changed the Course of...or wounded in the Civil War battle of Antietam, Maryland, than in the terrorist attacks...extended far beyond its terrible carnage. Antietam (or Sharpsburg, as Southerners called...
