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Antietam

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An·tie·tam  (n-ttm)
A creek of north-central Maryland emptying into the Potomac River. The bloody and inconclusive Civil War Battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg, as it is often called in the South) was fought along its banks on September 17, 1862.
Antietam [ænˈtiːtəm]
n
(Placename) a creek in NW Maryland, flowing into the Potomac: scene of a Civil War battle (1862), in which the Confederate forces of General Robert E. Lee were defeated


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The great battles and troop movements in the eastern states--Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg-are all straightforward, easy to find on maps, and simple to relate to the conflict's "big picture.
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Here, Martha Temkin's study of interpretive conflicts at the Antietam National Battlefield Park and Laurie Burgess's analysis of levels of meaning within Arlington National Cemetery both call attention to the problem of "landscape freezing"--that is, attempts to treat landscapes as time capsules of selected moments in time.
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Bloody Lane is the name given to an area near Antietam Creek where Union and Confederate forces battled on September 17,1862.
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