On Dunker Church Road, on the right when traveling north.
"...we are driven to protect our own country by transferring the seat of war to that of an enemy who pursues us with a relentless and apparently aimless hostility." President Jefferson Davis September 7, 1862 "The present seems to be the most . . . — — Map (db m22779) HM
On Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the right when traveling north.
(Front Face): 1861-1865 Twentieth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry Turner Rifles Third Brigade Second Division Sixth Army Corps
(Left Side):
Hatteras, N.C., Norfolk, Va.; Seven Days Battles Before Richmond, Crampton's Pass, . . . — — Map (db m6373) HM
On Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the right when traveling north.
(Front Face): Excelsior
The State of New York in commemoration of the Services of its officers and soldiers in the Battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862
(Rear Face):
Record of New York State at Antietam 67 Regiments of . . . — — Map (db m6397) WM
On Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the right when traveling north.
Civil War canoneers of both armies learned from the Artillery Drill manual: "To the Field Artillery belongs the service of the batteries which manoeuver with the troops on the field of battle. It is divided into two parts. Horse Artillery, which . . . — — Map (db m6350) HM
On Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the right when traveling north.
At Antietam, the open and rolling terrain benefited the artillerymen of both armies. By placing their cannon on high ground, Blue and Gray alike were able to effectively strike enemy troop positions at great distances. Over 500 cannon thundered . . . — — Map (db m20591) HM
On Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the right when traveling north.
Confederate Colonel Stephen D. Lee positioned his batteries to repel Union attacks toward the Dunker Church. The attacks came and the guns fired solid shot and explosive shells and canister - tin cans filled with small lead or iron balls that . . . — — Map (db m6368) HM
On Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the right when traveling north.
Confederate Col. Stephen D. Lee placed his battalion of nineteen cannons here. Throughout the morning, Union infantry and artillery aimed their attacks towards this high ground and the Dunker Church. Twenty-five percent of his men were killed or . . . — — Map (db m20575) HM
On Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the right when traveling north.
Maryland 3rd Md. Infantry. 2nd Stainbrook's Brigade. 2nd Greene's Division. 12th Mansfield's Corps. Advanced to the corner of the Dunkard Church, in front of this Marker. Loss, 4 killed, 25 wounded. The monument to the Maryland troops is near . . . — — Map (db m6857) HM
On Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the right when traveling north.
U.S.A. Twelfth Army Corps Stainrook's Brigade, Green's Division, Col. Henry J. Stainrook, 100th Penn., Commanding. Organization. 3d Maryland Infantry, 102d New York Infantry, 111th Pennsylvania Infantry. (September 17, 1862.) After the . . . — — Map (db m6886) HM
On Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the right when traveling south.
To the memory of the Old Dunkard Church The oak tree that stood in front and the Union Civil War Veterans of Sharpsburg, MD. Erected by O.T. Reilly the half-century Antietam battlefield guide. 1927 — — Map (db m6908) HM
On Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike at Smoketown Road, on the right when traveling north on Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike.
U.S.A. Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps. Brig. Gen. George Greene, Commanding. (September 17, 1862.) Greene's Division having turned the enemy's right in the East Woods advanced against the Confederate infantry north and east of this point, . . . — — Map (db m6335) HM
On Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike at Smoketown Road, on the right when traveling north on Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike.
(First Tablet):U.S.A. Second Army Corps. Major General E.V. Sumner, Commanding. (September 17, 1862.) At daybreak of the 17th the three divisions of the 2d Corps were east of the Antietam: Sedgwick's Division moved, crossed the Antietam . . . — — Map (db m6322) HM
On Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike at Smoketown Road, on the right when traveling south on Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike.
Before the Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln sent a telegram to General George B. McClellan, commanding the Union Army of the Potomac: GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL WITH YOU DESTROY THE REBEL ARMY IF POSSIBLE McClellan, with an . . . — — Map (db m6293) HM
On Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the right when traveling north.
Two days before the battle, President Abraham Lincoln sent Gen. George B. McClellan a telegram, "God bless you and all with you! Destroy the rebel army, if possible." It was here, on these rolling farm fields, where McClellan and the Army of the . . . — — Map (db m285991) HM
On Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike at Smoketown Road, on the right when traveling south on Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike.
E. Russel Hicks was a historian of Washington County, Md., and a member of the Church of the Brethren. A century after the battle he wrote: "I am the Church of the bloodiest battlefield in all American history. I had my conception in the minds of . . . — — Map (db m6284) HM
On Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike near Smoketown Road, on the right when traveling south.
"May it stand as it did in war - as a beacon to guide men searching their way through the darkness. May it stand throughout all ages as a symbol of mercy, peace, and understanding."
Maryland Governor Millard Tawes
Church Rededication . . . — — Map (db m20593) HM
On Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike at Smoketown Road, on the right when traveling north on Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike.
3d Brig. - 2d Div. - 2d Corps ———— John Lemuel Stetson of Plattsburgh, N.Y. Lieutenant Colonel ———— "Men Rally on Your Colors" Out of 300 men and 21 officers who went into battle nearby, there fell . . . — — Map (db m6274) HM
On Dunker Church Road at Smoketown Road, on the right when traveling north on Dunker Church Road.
C.S.A Longstreet's Command Manning's Brigade, Walker's Division Col. Van H. Manning, Commanding Organization 3d Arkansas, 30th Virginia, 27th, 46th and 48th North Carolina September 17, 1862 About 10:20 A.M. the 30th Virginia, 46th and 48th . . . — — Map (db m5465) HM
On Smoketown Road at Dunker Church Road, on the right when traveling west on Smoketown Road.
C.S.A. Jackson's Command Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, Commanding. (September 15-16, 1862.) Gen. Jackson, with Ewell's and Jackson's Divisions, left Harpers Ferry late in the afternoon of September 15th, reached Sharpsburg on the morning of the . . . — — Map (db m256210) HM
On Confederate Avenue at Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the right when traveling west on Confederate Avenue.
C.S.A. Jackson's Command Major General Thomas J. Jackson, Commanding. (September 17, 1862.) Jackson's Command was in order of battle at 5:30 a.m. Jackson's Division, commanded by J.R. Jones, in two lines, its right resting on the Hagerstown . . . — — Map (db m6276) HM
On Smoketown Road, on the right when traveling west.
(Front Side):
Thirty-Fourth Regiment
N.Y.S.V
Col. James A. Suiter
Commanding
Enlisted under President Lincoln's
call, issued April 15, 1861, for 75,000
men, to serve two years.
Mustered into the State service May 1, 1861 . . . — — Map (db m286078) HM
On Smoketown Road, on the right when traveling west.
While forming the extreme left front as Sedgewick's Division was being shot down in the West Woods, the 125th Penna. Inf. Rgt. was at times only 50 yards from Confederate Infantry. Of the Regiment's 54 killed and 91 wounded, most were lost here in . . . — — Map (db m6903) HM
On Smoketown Road, on the right when traveling east.
C.S.A. Walker's Division, Longstreet's Command. Brig. Gen. John G. Walker, Commanding. September 16-17, 1862. Walker's Division left Harper's Ferry on the evening of September 15, crossed the Potomac at Blackford's Ford, and reached Sharpsburg . . . — — Map (db m6907) HM
On Smoketown Road, on the left when traveling west.
C.S.A. McLaws' Division, Longstreet's Command. Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws, Commanding. September 17, 1862. McLaws' Division left Harper's Ferry on the forenoon of September 16th, crossed the Potomac at Blackford's Ford about daybreak of the . . . — — Map (db m6895) HM
