Antietam
[an-tee-tuh m]
- a creek flowing from S Pennsylvania through NW Maryland into the Potomac: Civil War battle fought near here at Sharpsburg, Maryland, in 1862.
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Contemporary Examples
In 2011, four years after my tour in Iraq, I walked the Antietam battlefield to remember.
A trip to the Antietam battlefield reminds an Iraq veteran of the friends he lost overseas.
Landscape Turned Red By Stephen Sears As a battle, Antietam might be called a draw.
He learned about Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Manassas, and Antietam.
If 2004 was Antietam, 2008—for liberals, at least—was Juneteenth.
Historical Examples
And so matters passed rapidly on until the morning of Antietam.
Shoulder-StrapsHenry Morford
Her letter—the first received since Antietam—he has read over time and again.
A War-Time WooingCharles King
The other lifted the field-glass and with it swept the Antietam, and the fields and ridges beyond it.
The Long RollMary Johnston
Grey and blue, the living armies gazed at each other across the Antietam.
The Long RollMary Johnston
From all the ridges of the Antietam the blue cannon thundered, thundered.
The Long RollMary Johnston
Antietam
- a creek in NW Maryland, flowing into the Potomac: scene of a Civil War battle (1862), in which the Confederate forces of General Robert E. Lee were defeated
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Word Origin and History for antietam
Antietam
place name, eastern U.S., from an Algonquian word perhaps meaning "swift water;" the name occurrs in Pennsylvania and Ohio, but the best-known is a creek near Sharpsburg in Washington County, Maryland, site of a bloody Civil War battle Sept. 17, 1862.
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