Antietam

[an-tee-tuh m]

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

Contemporary Examples of 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
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
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
He learned about Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Manassas, and Antietam.
Selling the Civil War to African Americans
David A. Graham
April 12, 2011
If 2004 was Antietam, 2008—for liberals, at least—was Juneteenth.
Why Obama's Campaign Bores Me
Peter Beinart
April 5, 2011

Historical Examples of antietam

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

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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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.