The stone observatory on the Bloody lane is now finished and ready for visitors. The view from this point alone is worth a visit to the famous Bloody lane as you can take in the entire right to the left nearly four miles. There will be, when all planted, nearly four hundred markers, giving one a good idea of the entire battle field with the advantage of the good roads. Every body ought to visit it and make a study of this great battle.
Virtual Antietam Podcasts
In Camp With Robert E. Lee at Dranesville, Virginia
This week we join Robert E. Lee in Dranesville,Virginia as he decides to begin the Maryland Campaign.
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At Harrison Hall with Lee, Leesburg, Virginia
This week we join Robert E. Lee in Leesburg, Virginia as he decides where to cross the Potomac River.
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On the Potomac River, White's Ford, Maryland
Stonewall Jackson, Jeb Stuart and James Longstreet take the Civil War to the north as the Yankees gawk at this lean, hungry pack of wolves.
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First Contact , Poolesville, Maryland
Fitzhugh Lee's cavalrymen are not the only obstacle facing Samuel Chamberlain's 1st Massachusetts Cavalry in the first bloodletting of Lee's Maryland Campaign.
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Let us take you on a journey to the Maryland Campaign of 1862. We will explore adventures with Robert E. Lee, George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln and others, recorded on the battleground where the action happened.
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Narrator: Stephen Recker
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Antietam Valley Record
Thursday, September 5, 1895