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The Antietam National Battlefield in Northwest Maryland is protected by the National Park Service along the Antietam Creek and commemorates the bloodiest one-day battle in American history.
The Civil War battle, which took place on September 17, 1862, left 23,000 soldiers dead.
You can visit the battlefield site as well as the Antietam National Military Service, in which 5,000 Union soldiers from the Battle of Antietam, as well as veterans of World War I, World War II, the Spanish-American War, and the Korean War are buried.
A visitor’s center contains exhibits about the battle and the Civil War, and they screen a 26-minute film narrated by James Earl Jones. There is a small field hospital museum displaying typical medical equipment used in the Civil War period.
302 E. Main Street, Sharpsburg, MD 21782, Phone: 301-432-5124
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