Battle of Antietam

"Battle of Antietam" by Kurz & Allison. Smaller text reads: Army of the Potomac: Gen. Geo. B. McClellan, Comm., Sept. 17' 1862. 1'2'4'6'9'12'Corps & Pleasanton's Cav. Div. Engaged. // Copyrighted 1888 by Kurz & Allison Art Publishers, 76 & 78 Wabash Ave., Chicago, U.S.A." ... MEDIUM: 1 print : lithograph, color. CREATED/PUBLISHED: c1888. Kurz & Allison. Copyrighted 1888 by Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, Chicago, U.S.A.

Print of soldiers in foreground and more soldiers in the background crossing a stone bridge. "BATTLE OF ANTIETAM. / GALLANT CHARGE OF GEN. BURNSIDE'S DIVISION AT THE BRIDGE." (printed below image). Print taken from a book titled "History of the War for the Union" by E. A. Duyckinck and illustrated by Alonzo Chappel. The book was published in New York by Johnson, Fry and Company.Title: "Battle of Antietam. Gallant Charge of Burnside's Division at the Bridge."

Located on East Main St. in front of the Resurrection Reformed Church (Iformerly the German Reformed Church). INSCRIPTION: Union surgeons turned Burkittsville, a quiet rural village of some 200 people, into a hospital complex after the September 14, 1862, Battle of Crampton’s Gap. The building in front of you, the German Reformed Church, was Hospital D. Twenty-year-old Henrietta Biser gasped when she saw the church pews strewn in the front yard and “a pile of amputated limbs lying just inside the door of the church. Blood was running...over the floor...and things were torn to pieces.” Henry M. Wiener remembered amputations being conducted in the church and “seeing blood on...the walls of the church.” Wounded Union and Confederate soldiers lay on the floor, their seeping blood ruining the carpet, until straw was brought in. When it became soaked, it was pitched outside and replaced with cots. The red brick St. Paul’s Lutheran Church also served as a hospital, and the Reformed Church parsonage, which stood between the churches, may also have served a medical function. The Henry McDuell farm north of town was Hospital A. The hospitals operated until January 1863, when the remaining patients were transferred to Frederick. The soldiers who died in Burkittsville were temporarily interred in the town cemetery. The Federals were removed to the Antietam National Cemetery in 1867 and the Confederates to Hagerstown’s Washington Mournful Tidings from Hospital D Burkittsville, Md. Oct. 22d 1862 Mr. B Exner Dear Sir I take pen in hand to inform you of the Death of your dear son. It is sad for you to hear this news. He was wounded in the left thigh and had it taken off. He lived longer than I expected he would altho he was very strong. He was well taken care of. I stood by his death bed and he wanted me to write to his Father & Mother....I have here in my care a picture of his Dear...Miss Catherine Snyter, Trenton, N.J. and if she wishes for it I will send it to her.... Your son died Oct. 18th 1862 and died very easy just as if he was going to sleep.... I feel sorry to have you and the young lady hear of his death. He had me promise him to write you and I told him I would. Yours Truly from W.H. Aubery Hospital Steward Burkittsville Md. Frederick Co. Hospital D. Source: U.S. National Archives Pension File of Pvt. Charles Exner, Co. C., 1st N.J. Infantry. Confederate Cemetery in the 1870s. Hospital D stands as a reminder of the misery and destruction the Antietam Campaign brought into the heart of this quiet town. Erected by Maryland Civil War Trails.

George Alfred Townsend, "Gath" was one of the youngest correspondents of the Civil War, who later became one of Americas most important journalists and novelists. "Gath" purchased 100 acres on South Mountain and erected a monument to honor Civil War Correspondents, artists and photographers. The site is now Gathland State Park. Located about a mile from Burkittsville,GATHs War Correspondents Arch is a National Historic Monument. It was constructed in 1896 and stands fifty feet high and forty feet broad. There is a picnic shelter and museum on the site and you can access the Appalachian Trail through the park. The park encompasses the following historical sites: War Correspondent’s Arch The War Correspondents Arch is a National historic monument. Constructed in 1896, the monument stands fifty feet high and forty feet broad. The monument is administered and maintained by the National Park Service. South Mountain State Battlefield Gathland State Park is located in Crampton's Gap, which witnessed a portion of the Battle of South Mountain, the first major battle of the Civil War fought in Maryland.

Antietam Battlefield. Dunkard Church

Battle flag of the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, captured at Antietam by the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. (MASS MOLLUS artifact collection).

The 9th New York Infantry Regiment charging the Confederate right at Antietam.

Title: A contrast! Federal buried, rebel unburied, where they fell at the Battle of Antietam Abstract/medium: 1 photograph : albumen silver print on card mount ; 11.5 x 15 cm (mount)

A Fateful Turn-Late morning looking east toward the Roulette Farm. Amid the smoke, noise and confusion on the northern end of the field, Union troops turned south toward an old sunken farm lane. The rolling terrain helped hide the Southern troops until the Northerners were almost on top of them. Suddenly, the Confederates unleashed a withering fire, leading to a desperate three-hour struggle for control of what came to be known as Bloody Lane. The burning Mumma Farm is seen on the left, and Gen. George McClellan is riding with his staff on his only visit onto the battlefield that day at about 2:00 pm. On the right, Richardson's and French's Union Divisions advancing on Bloody Lane.

Title: A lone grave on battle-field of Antietam Abstract/medium: 1 photograph : albumen silver print on card mount ; 1.5 x 15 cm (mount)

"A Lonely Grave"; title chosen by photographer Alexander Gardner for his shot of Union soldiers standing near a comrade's grave at the battlefield of Antietam, September 1862

Antietam, Md. President Lincoln and Gen. George B. McClellan in the general's tent

Allan Pinkerton on horseback at Antietam, Md.

“Women and children of Sharpsburg taking refuge in the cellar of the Kretzer mansion in that town, during the Battle of Antietam—bursting of a shell in the window of the cellar. Sketched by our special artist, Mr. F. H. Schell.”

This image shows a stamp showing a battle scene of Antietam, a line of Union infantry charging a Confederate position.

Battle of Antietam, 1862; Confederate dead at Bloody Lane, looking northeast from the south bank; the Union soldiers looking on were likely members of the 130th Pennsylvania, who were assigned burial detail

Antietam Battlefield. Dunkard Church

Antietam Battlefield. Dunkard Church

Antietam Bridge, Maryland. Sept. 1862. (Photograph by Alexander Gardner)

Antietam Bridge, Maryland. Sept. 1862. (Photograph by Alexander Gardner)

Title: Antietam Cemetery in foreground, South Mountain in background - gap shows location of Signal Station during battle. View taken after the war Physical description: 1 photographic print on card mount : half stereograph, albumen. Notes: Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Battlefield of Antietam.; No. 5078.; Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.; Title from item.