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Antietam National Battlefield
Volunteers needed to help replant East Woods

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Volunteers planting trees in the West Woods

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Date: December 31, 2008

East Woods reforestation planting will begin on the weekend of March 14 and extend to the first week in May. Planting days will be Tuesdays through Saturdays only. No planting will take place on Sundays or Mondays. Please call either Joe Calzarette or Lindsey Donaldson at (301) 432-2243 to schedule your planting day.

Everyone is welcome, just be prepared to let us know the size of the group that will be helping to plant. You only need to bring your own work gloves, all other materials will be provided.
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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