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1. ANTINF_190908_011.JPG: Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area
2. ANTINF_190908_021.JPG: Antietam National Battlefield Forces crossed Antietam Creek here and advanced into battle You are now at the eastern entrance to Antietam National Battlefield, the site of the bloodiest single day battle in American history. More than 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing at the end of twelve hours of combat. On September 17, 1862, the farm fields between the creek and the small town of Sharpsburg witnessed deafening and deadly musket and artillery fire. The armies fighting here destroyed many farms and crops, but the Joshua Newcomer farmhouse in front of you survived. "They fed their horses all my corn and pasture that had not been ruined by the soldiers during the skirmishing and progress of the battle." -- Joshua Newcomer Captain John C. Tidball, 2nd U.S. Artillery, took position on the high ground to your left and fired an estimated 12000 rounds against Confederate positions north and west of here. At the time of the battle the road from Boonsboro to Sharpsburg crossed one of Antietam's signature stone bridges. The one here was replaced in 1960. The Newcomer family owned many buildings here including a grist mill, saw mill, workshop, and barn.
3. ANTINF_190908_031.JPG: Captain John C. Tidball, 2nd U.S. Artillery, took position on the high ground to your left and fired an estimated 12000 rounds against Confederate positions north and west of here. At the time of the battle the road from Boonsboro to Sharpsburg crossed one of Antietam's signature stone bridges. The one here was replaced in 1960. The Newcomer family owned many buildings here including a grist mill, saw mill, workshop, and barn.
4. ANTINF_190908_039.JPG: History or Memory? Antietam Battlefield's Monuments and their Meanings Antietam Battlefield's monuments and their meanings Veterans, state organizations, and individuals have placed 97 monuments at Antietam. Most of them are Union monuments constructed during the first twenty years after Congress established the battlefield in 1890. Each monument represents the perspective of those who built it and the historic moment in which it was created. The National Park Service's mission is to preserve and protect cultural and natural resources that comprise the battlefield, including monuments and their historical narratives. The challenge for the National Park Service and for our nation -- is how to interpret these monuments when they mean different things to different people and may even express conflicting ideas. The current National Park Service policy on monuments states that: "Unless directed by legislation, it is the policy of the National Park Service that these works and their inscriptions will not be altered, relocated, obscured, or removed even when they are deemed inaccurate or incompatible with prevailing present-day values." Lee Monument at the Newcomer Farm A private citizen erected this monument to Robert E. Lee in 2003. At that time the Newcomer Farm was not owned by the National Park Service. Eventually, the National Park Service acquired the farm along with the monument. The Lost Cause After the war many Southerners attempted to come to grips with why their attempt to secede from the Union failed. Southern women's groups and former Confederate generals spread the myth that the Confederacy was not defeated but overwhelmed from the start by insurmountable odds in its fight for states' rights. Many denied that slavery was a primary cause of the war, contradicting their stated reasons for secession. These views soon spread to a large segment of the white population and became known as the Lost Cause. Questions for Reflection • What is the purpose of monuments on a battlefield? Are they memorials to those who fought, or attempts to teach history in a particular way? • Do monuments reflect what actually happened, or how a person or group interpreted those events and what they chose to set in stone? • Does the Lee Monument reinforce the myth of the Lost Cause?
5. ANTINF_190908_043.JPG: Monuments at Antietam by the Year Dedicated [BLUE] Union Monuments [RED] Confederate Monuments [BLACK] Both 1880-1920 -- Union = 79, Confederate = 6, Both=1 1921-1960 -- Union = 0, Confederate = 1, Both = 0 1961-1970 -- Union = 3, Confederate = 2, Both = 0 1971-1990 -- none 1991-present -- Union = 1, Confederate = 2, Both = 0
6. ANTINF_190908_052.JPG: Questions for Reflection • What is the purpose of monuments on a battlefield? Are they memorials to those who fought, or attempts to teach history in a particular way? • Do monuments reflect what actually happened, or how a person or group interpreted those events and what they chose to set in stone? • Does the Lee Monument reinforce the myth of the Lost Cause?
7. ANTINF_190908_055.JPG: The current National Park Service policy on monuments states that: "Unless directed by legislation, it is the policy of the National Park Service that these works and their inscriptions will not be altered, relocated, obscured, or removed even when they are deemed inaccurate or incompatible with prevailing present-day values."
8. ANTINF_190908_076.JPG: African American Heritage Sites
9. ANTINF_190908_085.JPG: Antietam National Cemetery
10. ANTINF_190908_089.JPG: Washington Confederate Cemetery
11. ANTINF_190908_093.JPG: Mount Olivet Cemetery
12. ANTINF_190908_097.JPG: Beyond the Battlefield
13. ANTINF_190908_104.JPG: Alexander Gardner image of a Union burial crew at Antietam.
14. ANTINF_190908_107.JPG: National Museum of Civil War Medicine and Pry House Field Hospital Museum
15. ANTINF_190908_113.JPG: Keedysville location (Pry)
16. ANTINF_190908_115.JPG: Emmitsburg
17. ANTINF_190908_129.JPG: Union Mills Homestead
18. ANTINF_190908_135.JPG: The Historical Society of Carroll County
19. ANTINF_190908_141.JPG: The Miller House
20. ANTINF_190908_148.JPG: Museum of Frederick County History
21. ANTINF_190908_152.JPG: Carroll County Farm Museum
22. ANTINF_190908_163.JPG: South Mountain State Battlefield
23. ANTINF_190908_174.JPG: Antietam National Battlefield
24. ANTINF_190908_181.JPG: Monocacy National Battlefield
25. ANTINF_190908_185.JPG: Historic National Road, an All American Road
26. ANTINF_190908_192.JPG: This illustration by Richard Schlecht depicts the construction of the nation's first macadam road, between Boonsboro and Hagerstown in 1823.
27. ANTINF_190908_195.JPG: In the Heat of Battle
28. ANTINF_190908_200.JPG: Pre-Civil War Maryland
29. ANTINF_190908_205.JPG: Maryland and the Civil War
30. ANTINF_190908_208.JPG: 1862 Maryland Campaign
31. ANTINF_190908_213.JPG: 1863 Gettysburg Campaign 1864 Jubal Early's Raid
32. ANTINF_190908_220.JPG: A column of Confederate troops making their way past J. Rosenstock's store in downtown Frederick during the Maryland Campaign of 1862.
33. ANTINF_190908_227.JPG: C&O Canal National Historical Park
34. ANTINF_190908_242.JPG: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
35. ANTINF_190908_245.JPG: Brunswick Railroad Museum
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