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Civil War Relic
Section of wooden fence rail that Confederate forces under Gen. D.H. Hill used to entrench themselves against attacked by Union forces led by Gen. Wm. H. French at Sunken Road (Bloody Lane) on September 17, 1862 on the Antietam battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland.
There are five iron cannister balls embedded in the rail, four in the front and one in the back. |