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Link Posted: 9/18/2012 10:38:04 PM EDT
[#1]
Nice pics.
Link Posted: 9/18/2012 10:42:10 PM EDT
[#2]
I go to Antietam about twice a year while visiting my parents. It's the most powerful civil war battlefield I've ever been to. It's very well preserved compared to other battlefields.
Link Posted: 9/18/2012 10:44:13 PM EDT
[#3]
ive walked bloody lane and burnside bridge. very eerie being there
 
Link Posted: 9/19/2012 1:20:52 AM EDT
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ive walked bloody lane and burnside bridge. very eerie being there  


The trenches are still there near the bridge. Hard to see under the tall grass, but still there. I went in one of them about 12 yrs ago,... very creepy !!!

ETA - Over the past 3-4 decades, I've been to many Revolutionary War & Civil War battlefields and none have stood out (to me) quite like Antietam, definitely one the most solemn places I've ever been.
Link Posted: 9/19/2012 1:27:38 AM EDT
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Quoted:

ive walked bloody lane and burnside bridge. very eerie being there  




The trenches are still there near the bridge. Hard to see under the tall grass, but still there. I went in one of them about 12 yrs ago,... very creepy !!!


I saw a D-Day documentary some years ago where some old vets were walking around places they had been.  This one old guy looked around a road intersection out in the near countryside and then pointed to a ditch beside the road and said "I dug a foxhole right over there."  They walked over, poked around in the grass and weeds, and there was the remnant of the guy's old foxhole.





 
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