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Location: ANTIETAM BATTLEFIELD-SMOKETOWN ROAD

City: SHARPSBURG

State: Maryland

Zip Code: 21782

Type of Memorial: War Monuments

Year Dedicated: 1902

Access: Public

Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR

Photograph By: CRAIG SWAIN


1862-1902
AFTER MANY YEARS, WE, THEIR SURVIVING COMRADES, JOURNEYING HITHER, AND CALLING TO REMEMBRANCE THEIR FORTITUDE IN THE MIDST OF HARDSHIPS, AND THEIR COURAGE IN THE MIDST OF DANGERS, HAVE REVERENTLY, AND WITH LOVING HANDS, ERECTED THIS NOBLE SHAFT, OVERLOOKING THE FIELDS ON WHICH THEY FELL IN GLORY, TO PRESERVE THEIR MEMORY FROM DECAY, AND TO TELL ALL THE STORY OF THEIR SACRIFICE, THEIR PATRIOTISM, AND THEIR VALOR.


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