A long-forgotten Civil War map has recently been rediscovered, shedding new light on the bloody aftermath of the battle of Antietam. Some 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing following the ...

Editor’s Note: Last weekend, William Vandall made the trip to Maryland to commemorate the Battle of Antietam. This is an accounting of his visit. Over the weekend, a historic moment passed 160 years ...

One student marveled at the size of the jawbreaker, a mainstay of candy stores and Civil War soldiers' rations bags alike. “Can I eat it?” the student asked the man dressed as a Confederate soldier.

The tattered map shows where the bodies of 300 Confederates were buried, row on row just outside a sunken farm lane called Hog Trough Road where they fought that day. A few yards away, the graves of ...

For the National Park Service team responsible for planning the updates to the recently reopened visitor center at Antietam National Battlefield, the shutdown of operations during the pandemic proved ...