President Jimmy Carter's visits to Washington County included worshipping in Hagerstown, touring Antietam National ...

Budiansky focuses on the Battle of Antietam, which took place during the American Civil War in 1862 and left some 3,600 soldiers killed and 16,000 wounded. A military draw, it became a political ...

Union troops needed to cross Antietam Creek to flank the Confederate Army. Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside had orders to take a stone bridge crossing the creek, even though it meant his forces would ...

At Antietam, Burnside forced his troops into repeated assaults across a narrow bridge dominated by Confederate sharpshooters, when a careful reconnaissance of the area would have revealed several ...