Senin, 18 September 2017

Witness to Slaughter

Antietam National Battlefield’s Miller farmhouse is in the midst of a major overhaul. In the early hours of September 17, 1862, Confederate and Union troops began the Battle of Antietam in the cornfield near the David R. Miller farmhouse in Sharpsburg, Maryland. They engaged in waves of combat so furious that Union Major General Joseph …

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