SHARPSBURG, Md. – After more than two years, a campaign to replace the missing sword on a Pottsville Civil War general’s monument has been completed. Orwigsburg native John David Hoptak, Gettysburg, ...

Great issues were at stake as the tired, ragged soldiers in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia began wading across the Potomac River into Maryland at a ford thirty miles northwest of Washington ...

Many historians say Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s perceived indecisiveness during the Maryland Campaign cost the Union Army an early opportunity to win the Civil War. Local historian and author ...

CHARLESTON - Thomas G. Clemens, one of America's leading historians on the 1862 Maryland Campaign and the Battle of Antietam Gen. Ezra A. Carman, the campaign's first historian, will present "The 1862 ...

On Sept. 17, 1862, Gen. George B. McClellan stopped Gen. Robert E. Lee’s first Confederate invasion of the North at the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of warfare in American history. This ...

For the National Park Service team responsible for planning the updates to the recently reopened visitor center at Antietam National Battlefield, the shutdown of operations during the pandemic proved ...

Miss Poppies, Mackenzie and Brooke Angle, daughters of Jeremy and Kim Angle of Boonsboro, presented Sharpsburg Mayor Hal Spielman with poppies before the May 1 Sharpsburg Town Council meeting. The ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Ted Alexander is a Chief Historian for the Antietam National Battlefield with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2012 Forum. Most common tag: ...

Many battles preceded and followed, but none would be so costly on both sides as Antietam. No more would citizen soldiers populate both armies. Rather, they would now be known as professional veterans ...