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Antietam National Battlefield
5th Maryland Volunteer Infantry (US) Monument

Dedicated: May 30, 1900
Location: North side of Bloody Lane
Map Number: 52
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5th Maryland Volunteer Infantry (US) Monument

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5th Maryland Volunteer Infantry (US) Monument

Monument Text:
MARYLAND
5th MD Infantry
3rd - Max Weber's - Brigade
3rd - French's - Division
2nd - Sumner's - Corps
Advanced to the knoll
above the Bloody Lane,
300 feet in rear of
this marker. Loss 43
killed, 123 wounded.
The monument to the
Maryland troops is
near the Dunkard
Church.
William McKinley as a soldier and president.  

Did You Know?
William McKinley served at Antietam as a Commissary Sergeant in the 23rd Ohio Infantry before becoming the nation’s 25th President. A monument to him at Antietam was dedicated in his memory on October 13, 1903, two years after he was assassinated.

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