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Remains of Unknown Irish Brigade Soldiers
Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: April 6, 2008
Caption: Remains of Unknown Irish Brigade Soldiers
Additional Description: In the nearby National Cemetery is this reminder that the battlefield became the final resting place of many soldiers:

Here lie the partial remains of four unknown Union soldiers of the Irish Brigade, killed September 17, 1862, during the Battle of Antietam, while assaulting the Confederate positions in "Bloody Lane." After the war, portions of their bodies were removed and interred in this National Cemetery. These additional remains were discovered within the battlefield in 1988 and reinterred September 17, 1989.
Submitted: April 20, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p21804
File Size: 1.484 Megabytes

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