In 1862 Alexander Gardner, a commercial photographer, packed his camera and darkroom into his "war wagon" and travelled to view the aftermath of Sharpsburg ... dead children during the Spanish ...

SHARPSBURG — National Park Service officials have confirmed reports of vandalism on the Antietam National Battlefield. Graffiti has also been found on what is known as the “slave auction block ...

But of all those conflicts, the Civil War ... Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland. The Union declared victory in the bloodiest one-day battle in U.S. history until World War II. Despite the toll ...

More Americans were killed at Sharpsburg on September ... produced most of these casualties. There is surprisingly little known about the accuracy and range of Civil War infantry arms.

Just yards away, a simple, inscribed slab marks where a Confederate brigadier general fell dead of a gunshot wound ... “No tour of the Civil War’s eastern battlefields is complete without ...