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Bolivar Heights, high above the town of Harpers Ferry, and commanding a spectacular view, was the place where President Lincoln reviewed the Union troops after the Battle of Antietam.
After lunch we proceeded on to Sharpsburg, Maryland, site of the bloody battle which climaxed Lee's Maryland Campaign of 1862. We arrived at the Antietam Visitors' Center just in time for the demonstration on the "Common Soldier" presented by rangers of the National Park Service. This demonstration featuring a "Confederate soldier" in authentic dress focused on the equipment and daily routine of the common soldier and ended with the firing of the Enfield ritle. Immediately after the demonstration, we watched the new film about the battle of Antietam. This new film is certainly better than the old slide show which it replaces, but still (in my opinion) too one-sidedly anti-war. with too much emphasis on the horrors and miseries of war. Now. I am not in any way pro- war, but I do think that war is sometimes morally justifiable, and that war can cause some to rise to feats of valor. honor. and unselfishness that thev would not otherwise have achieved. In any case. I think that these National Park Service films should attempt to inspire a little more patriotism and a little less cringing fear of death.
We had all studied the Battle of Antietam in detail
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