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MD -- Antietam National Cemetery:

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1. ANTINC_160402_01.JPG: Not For Themselves, But For Their Country Inscription from the Private Soldier Monument in the center of Antietam National Cemetery After the battle, Federal soldiers buried over 4,000 bodies in mass graves, along rock outcroppings, and in farmers' fields. As time passed, more soldiers died of wounds or disease. The peaceful village of Sharpsburg became a vast hospital and burial ground, an unsafe and unpleasant situation for a war-torn community. In March 1865, the State of Maryland stepped forward and purchased land "for the purpose of a State and National Cemetery, in which the bodies of our heroes who fell in that great struggle and are now bleaching in their upturned furrows, may be gathered for a decent burial and their memories embalmed in some suitable memorial." The original plan called for Union and Confederate soldiers to be buried in the National Cemetery. However, the lack of funds available from southern states and the objections against including former Confederates led to the reinterment of only Union soldiers. Confederate dead remained in shallow graves, in some cases for ten years, until they were reinterred in three existing cemeteries located in Hagerstown and Frederick, Maryland, and Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Today over 5,200 soldiers lay at rest in the National Cemetery. Their service spans from the Civil War to the Korean War. Deemed full in 1953, the cemetery was closed and since then only a few exceptions have been made, most recently a sailor killed during a terrorist attack on the USS Cole in October of 2010. This shovel and bent bayonet were used at Antietam to drag and bury bodies. "When we took on yon battlefield, I think of these brave men who fell in the fierce struggle of battle, and who sleep silent in their graves. Yes many of them sleep in silence and peace within this beautiful enclosure after the earnest conflict has ceased." -- President Andrew Johnson speaking at the dedication, September 17, 1867
2. ANTINC_160402_10.JPG: Thousands came out for the cemetery dedication in 1867 (above), and for the dedication of the Private Soldier monument in 1880 (below).
3. ANTINC_160402_13.JPG: This headboard marked the grave of Confederate Lt. Arthur W. Speight of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry who was killed at Antietam and buried on the field. His remains were later moved to one of three Confederate cemeteries.
4. ANTINC_160402_16.JPG: Alexander Gardner's title for this photograph is "Federal buried, Confederate unburied, where they fell." The sketch below depicts burials in front of Bloody Lane.
5. ANTINC_160402_25.JPG: "Not for themselves, but for their country..." Antietam National Cemetery Here lie 4,776 Union soldiers, more than a third of them unknown. Built by Maryland and other Union states, the Cemetery was dedicated five years after the battle. In 1878 it was transferred to the War Department and in 1833 the Cemetery and the Battlefield site were transferred to the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. The Cemetery was closed for further burial in 1953. In addition to the Civil War dead, 261 veterans of later wars are also buried here.
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Wikipedia Description: Antietam National Battlefield
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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 September 17, 1862.

Battlefield:

In the Battle of Antietam, General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North was ended on this battlefield in 1862.

Established as Antietam National Battlefield Site August 30, 1890, the park was transferred from the War Department August 10, 1933, and redesignated November 10, 1978. Along with all historic areas administered by the National Park Service the battlefield was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.

Cemetery:

Antietam National Cemetery, whose 11.36 acres contain 5,032 interments, 1,836 unidentified, adjoins the park. Civil War interments occurred in 1866. The cemetery contains only Union soldiers from the Civil War period. Confederate dead were interred in the Washington Confederate Cemetery within Rosehill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Maryland, Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, Maryland; and Elmwood Cemetery in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The cemetery also contains the graves of veterans and their wives from the Spanish-American War, World War I and II, and the Korean War. The cemetery was closed in 1953. An exception was made in 2000 for the remains of USN Fireman Patrick Howard Roy who was killed in the attack on the USS Cole. The Antietam National Cemetery was placed under the War Department on July 14, 1870; it was transferred to the National Park Service on August 10, 1933.
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