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Sharpsburg

American  
[shahrps-burg] / ˈʃɑrps bɜrg /

noun

  1. a town in NW Maryland: nearby is the site of the Civil War battle of Antietam 1862.


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That little building on High Street in Sharpsburg, built in 1866 to serve the Methodist Episcopal congregation, quickly began serving double-duty as a school for Black children.

From Washington Times • Oct. 1, 2022

Wilson of Sharpsburg was released from jail on $100,000 bond Friday.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2022

After the war, a formal cemetery was established, now the Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg, and in 1866, the process of exhuming the remaining dead from the battlefield began.

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2020

From left: Hank Ashmore, 74, of Sharpsburg, Ga., attended his first Masters in 1960 and has been to 41; John M. Moss III, 69, of Harlem, Ga., attended his first Masters in 1958.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 17, 2019

A few years ago it was announced in an Atlanta paper that a lady from Sharpsburg, Md., was visiting a friend in Atlanta.

From The Women of the Confederacy by Underwood, J. L.

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