I spent several hours today walking around the Antietam battlefield. It was smaller than the others I've seen: Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Pea Ridge.
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Saturday, June 6, 2015
Antietam National Battlefield
Antietam
I spent several hours today walking around the Antietam battlefield. It was smaller than the others I've seen: Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Pea Ridge.
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There are a lot of monuments to individual fighting units but they are all Union; there are no Confederate unit monuments. I found this odd; Vicksburg has about an equal number of monuments dedicated to Union and Confederate fighting units.
I spent several hours today walking around the Antietam battlefield. It was smaller than the others I've seen: Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Pea Ridge.
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The Union after the war was quite vindictive and the farther north you went the worse it was. So no monuments. They often didn't even bury the Confederate dead leaving the locals to dump them in graves for the sanitation of the battlefield. Which the relatives of the Confederates would dig up looking for lost loved ones.
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