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The Battle of Antietam (/ æ n ˈ t iː t əm / an-TEE-təm), also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek.
Mary Richards, also known as Mary Jane Richards Garvin and possibly Mary Bowser (born 1846), was a Union spy during the Civil War. [1] She was possibly born enslaved from birth in Virginia , but there is no documentation of where she was born or who her parents were.
William "Extra Billy" Smith (1797–1887), two-time governor of Virginia, Confederate general; Harold Fleming Snead (1903–1987), Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia (1957–74) Leroy Augustus Stafford (1822–1864), Confederate Army brigadier general; William E. Starke (1814–1862), Confederate general killed at the Battle of Antietam
Sharpsburg is a town in Washington County, Maryland.The town is approximately 13 miles (21 km) south of Hagerstown.Its population was 560 at the 2020 census. During the American Civil War, the Battle of Antietam, referred to as the Battle of Sharpsburg by the South, was fought on what is now Antietam National Battlefield, in the vicinity of Antietam Creek.
Confederate General Robert Lee said "The chief source of information to the enemy is through our negroes." [31] In a letter to Confederate high command, Confederate general Patrick Cleburne complained "All along the lines slavery is comparatively valueless to us for labor, but of great and increasing worth to the enemy for information. It is an ...
The Beauregard-Keyes House in New Orleans is said to be haunted by the ghost of Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard and an entire regiment of ghost soldiers reenacting the Battle of Shiloh, perhaps Beauregard's worst defeat and a battle that took place 415 miles away in southwest Tennessee. [12]
The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district ...
Tolson's Chapel and School is a historic African American church located at Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It was built in 1866 and served as a church and a Freedmen's Bureau school for black residents of Sharpsburg in the years following the American Civil War . [ 2 ]