Antietam National Battlefield News

A very different sort of Santa will appear this weekend at one of the region's most-storied homes.

Volunteers are preparing to light up the Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg with more than 23,000 candles.

Vernell and Tim Doyle didn't ask to compile "Images of America: Sharpsburg," but at the publisher's request, they dove into the project.

When Ron Nosalik and a handful of Boy Scouts from his troop in Upper Marlboro, Md., visited Antietam National Battlefield in December some 21 years ago, it was to earn a merit badge.

For the past 20 years, the memorial illumination ceremony - when the hills of Antietam National Battlefield glow with luminarias placed there in remembrance of the battle's casualties - has gone smoothly.

"The day had been a long one, but the evening seemed longer; the sun seemed almost to go backwards, and it appeared as if night would never come." -Lt. James A. Graham, 27th North Carolina Infantry , Sept.

On Saturday, Antietam National Battlefield will offer a somber reminder of the how much was sacrificed to keep the United States united by setting tens of thousands of candles aglow.

Ranger Cathy Beeler, an expert in black powder, artillery and other arms, began her career at Antietam National Battlefield and has been with Monocacy National Battlefield since its opening in 1991.

Police and fire officials are cleaning up a diesel fuel spill near the Md. 75-Md. 80 intersection, near Monrovia .

Amateur photographer Geary Hoover sees a ghostlike image in this picture of Burnside Bridge at Antietam National Battlefield in the second bridge support, below the water line.

The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident this morning on Sharpsburg Pike was pronounced dead at Washington County Hospital, according to a news release sent by Maryland State Police at 1:06 p.m. A 1992 Buick LeSabre was northbound near 5604 Sharpsburg Pike, ran off the right roadside and struck a mailbox and drainage ditch, according to the ...

The driver of a Buick LeSabre that struck a battlefield monument at Antietam National Battlefield Sunday morning before overturning into a stonewall and coming to rest on its roof has died, according to Maryland State Police at Hagerstown.

A foot race is an unusual way to see four parks in one day, but Freedom's Run takes you through Antietam National Battlefield, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, and the Potomac Heritage National Scenic.

If you think you've got a bad boss, consider George McClellan, a Union general whose dithering caused needless deaths during the Civil War Battle of Antietam in 1862.

The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts presents a free lecture associated with the Civil War Exhibition currently on view at the Museum.

ANTIETAM NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD, Md. - The tranquil beauty of this 173-year-old stone-arch bridge, standing over a leaf-strewn stream on a glorious fall day, mocks its history.

HYDE PARK - An unidentified Civil War soldier from New York who died 147 years ago Thursday was given full military honors, as a funeral procession carrying his remains passed through the Town of Hyde Park today.

The remains of a Union Civil War soldier found at the Antietam National Battlefield here will be buried today in his home state of New York on the 147th anniversary of the battle, the Civil War's bloodiest day.

Motorcyclists hold flags outside the state Military Museum in Saratoga Springs during a ceremony for the remains of an unknown soldier from the Civil War's battle of more... Civil War re-enactor Larry Clowers of Gettysburg, Pa., dresses as Gen.

An unknown Civil War soldier began his journey home to New York state yesterday, nearly a year after a visitor to the Antietam National Battlefield spotted his remains in a cornfield that saw the fiercest fighting of the war.