Antietam

[ an-tee-tuh m ]

/ ænˈti təm /

noun

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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Examples from the Web for antietam

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
At Antietam, the bloodiest battle of the war, McKinley's gallantry was so conspicuous that he was promoted to a lieutenancy.
The Greater Republic|Charles Morris
At Antietam, at Fredericksburg, at Chancellorsville, he was present and fought his command to the uttermost.
Men of Our Times|Harriet Beecher Stowe
The following map is based upon one issued November, 1894, by the “Antietam Board.”
Joseph K. F. Mansfield, Brigadier General of the U.S. Army|John Mead Gould
Dick put his glasses to his eyes, and slowly swept a wide curve on the peninsula of Antietam.
The Sword of Antietam|Joseph A. Altsheler
At the time we did not know that we were on the banks of the—to be—celebrated Antietam.
Personal Recollections of the War of 1861|Charles Augustus Fuller

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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