Keith Snyder-NPS
Dunker Church
The Antietam Memorial Illumination is held yearly, the first Saturday in December. Over 23,000 luminaries are placed across the field to represent each casuality that occurred on September 17, 1862. Click
here (Quicktime Video-7:30 length-10.6 MB) to see the illumination video and for more information, visit our
Memorial Illumination page.