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Antietam

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Antietam
indecisive battle of the Civil War (1862). [Am. Hist.: Harbottle Battles, 15]
See : Battle


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The great battles and troop movements in the eastern states--Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg-are all straightforward, easy to find on maps, and simple to relate to the conflict's "big picture.
Here, Martha Temkin's study of interpretive conflicts at the Antietam National Battlefield Park and Laurie Burgess's analysis of levels of meaning within Arlington National Cemetery both call attention to the problem of "landscape freezing"--that is, attempts to treat landscapes as time capsules of selected moments in time.
Bloody Lane is the name given to an area near Antietam Creek where Union and Confederate forces battled on September 17,1862.
 
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