Antietam Car Camping

On September 20th we will be going car camping at Antietam Battlefield. We will do a hike and history tour of the field and then camp out at the beautiful Rohrbach campground. This is an excellent trip for everyone, especially new scouts. See all the details about logistics and packing at the flyer below:

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About the Battle of Antietam: The Army of the Potomac, under the command of George McClellan, mounted a series of powerful assaults against Robert E. Lee’s forces near Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862. The morning assault and vicious Confederate counterattacks swept back and forth through Miller’s Cornfield and the West Woods. Later, towards the center of the battlefield, Union assaults against the Sunken Road pierced the Confederate center after a terrible struggle. Late in the day, the third and final major assault by the Union army pushed over a bullet-strewn stone Burnside Bridge at Antietam Creek. Just as the Federal forces began to collapse the Confederate right, the timely arrival of A.P. Hill’s division from Harpers Ferry helped drive the Army of the Potomac back once more. It was the bloodiest single day in American military history, with a combined tally of 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing. The battle ended in a draw, but the Confederate retreat gave Abraham Lincoln the “victory” he desired before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.