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

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2022

His grave may have been easy to spot by early surveyors because his father, Lemuel, traveled to Sharpsburg days after the battle to mark it.

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2020

Heinz attended Duff’s Mercantile College in Pittsburgh and was a bookkeeper at his father’s Sharpsburg brickyard.

From Washington Times • Oct. 12, 2019

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

Richardson, Colonel John B., at Second Manassas, 188; at Sharpsburg, 258, 269; at Fredericksburg, 319; at Gettysburg, 411.

From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James

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