"Burnside Bridge," Antietam Creek

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The bridge played a key role in the September 1862 Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War when a small number of Confederate soldiers from Georgia for several hours held off repeated attempts by elements of the Union Army to take the bridge by force.

Keywords

American Civil War, antietam creek, Burnside Bridge, Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside

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1861-1865 Civil War Places

Source

Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 1) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)

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