
Antietam National Battlefield
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N 39° 28.446 W 077° 44.674
18S E 263919 N 4372986
There is a Passport Cancellation Station in the Visitor Center.
Waymark Code: WM3FD
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 11/06/2005
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Established by Act of Congress on August 30, 1890, this Civil War site marks the end of General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North in September 1862. The battle claimed more than 23,000 men killed, wounded, and missing in one single day, September 17,1862, and led to Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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