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Monday, August 28, 2017

Antietam: Grove house in Sharpsburg, Md., Robert E. Lee war council site

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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Antietam: Battle-damaged Lutheran church on Main Street (hover on image)

THEN image: Alexander Gardner | Library of Congress collection, Sept. 21 or 22, 1862
NOW image: Google Street View, September 2012

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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Antietam: Confederate dead near Dunker Church and West Woods

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Monday, September 19, 2016

Antietam: Knapp's Battery near present-day battlefield visitor center

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Sunday, September 18, 2016

Antietam: Farmhouse of David R. Miller next to The Bloody Cornfield

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Antietam: David Reel barn, makeshift Rebel hospital struck by Union artillery

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John Banks: John Banks is author of A Civil War Road Trip Of A Lifetime, Connecticut Yankees at Antietam and Hidden History of Connecticut Union Soldiers. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Civil War Times, Civil War Monitor, Civil War News, America's Civil War and Military Images. Banks, who attended Mount Lebanon (Pa.) High School, graduated from West Virginia University (B.A. in journalism). A longtime journalist (The Dallas Morning News, ESPN, The History Channel), he is secretary-treasurer of The Center for Civil War Photography.

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