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Antietam National Battlefield
5th Maryland Volunteer Infantry, Company A & I Monument

Dedicated: September 17, 1890

Location: Just north of Bloody Lane

Map Number: 50

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5th Maryland Volunteer Infantry
Company A & I (USA) Monument

Monument Text:
Erected
by the survivors of
Company "A" & "I"
To the memory of our
fallen comrades
who fell on this spot
September 17, 1862

This stone marks the extreme advance of Weber's Brigade French's Div. 2nd Army Corps.

Can their glory ever fade

5th Md. Vet. Vol. Inf'y

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Bodies on the battlefield

Did You Know?
Alexander Gardner's photographs of Antietam were the first ever images to show dead soldiers on the field of battle. A New York Times article about the photographs said it was if the "dead had been laid at our doorsteps."
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