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before coming to the battlefield, but maps, lectures, and diagrams are no subsit ute for seeing the actual layout of the land. Waling through the West Woods, the cornfields, and "Bloody Lane" caused me to experience the realities of the battle in ways that ho textb(H)k could.
The climax of our \isit to Antietam Battlefield was our brief re-enactment of the battle of the Lower Bridge. On the day of the battle in September of 1862, Llnion troops under Burnside repeatedly attempted to cross this old stone bridge but were repulsed each time by Georgia sharpshooters on the heights above. Only after a contingent of Union soldiers forded the creek downstream
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