Antietam

For example, Lee also said he would “never bear arms against the Union” except to defend Virginia — a vow he did not keep at Antietam or Gettysburg.
Let’s get real about Robert E. Lee and slavery|Gillian Brockell|September 10, 2021|Washington Post
In 2011, four years after my tour in Iraq, I walked the Antietam battlefield to remember.
Memorial Days After Mourning Has Passed|Alex Horton|May 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A trip to the Antietam battlefield reminds an Iraq veteran of the friends he lost overseas.
Memorial Days After Mourning Has Passed|Alex Horton|May 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Landscape Turned Red By Stephen Sears As a battle, Antietam might be called a draw.
The Best Civil War Books|Malcolm Jones|April 15, 2011|DAILY BEAST

He learned about Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Manassas, and Antietam.
Selling the Civil War to African Americans|David A. Graham|April 12, 2011|DAILY BEAST
If 2004 was Antietam, 2008—for liberals, at least—was Juneteenth.
Why Obama's Campaign Bores Me|Peter Beinart|April 5, 2011|DAILY BEAST
It won glory at South Mountain, and made the narrow bridge of Antietam forever historic.
The Boys of '61|Charles Carleton Coffin.
So, just before the battle of Antietam, we were in Washington.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863|Various
Funkstown is located on Little Antietam creek, about seventy miles west of Baltimore.
The Old Pike|Thomas B. Searight
The next day, at nightfall, the Federals were facing Lee's army, the Antietam creek flowing between the hostile ranks.
Who Goes There?|Blackwood Ketcham Benson
Thomas was killed in the Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862.
A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States : From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848|George Tobias Flom

British Dictionary definitions for Antietam

Antietam

/ (ænˈtiːtəm) /

noun

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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