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"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. |