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"I would be very much pleased to learn that the Government was about to secure the Battlefield of Antietam for a National Park, preserving all the natural features that makes it interesting...I should be still more pleased to have this plan perfected soon enough to allow the old soldiers of each army to meet fraternally at a common camp fire...as a living example to our children that our differences are adjusted, our animosities wiped out and that we have but one common interest—one county and one flag." James Smith, former Colonel of 69th New York, 1893 Join us as an Antietam Partner Donate to a Battlefield Project
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Did You Know?
Over 500 cannons participated in the Battle of Antietam, firing over 50,000 rounds of ammunition. The cannonade was so severe that Confederate artillery commander Colonel S.D. Lee described the battle as "artillery hell."