Aftermath Along the Hagerstown Turnpike

Aftermath Along the Hagerstown Turnpike (HMRYG)

Location: Sharpsburg, MD 21782 Washington County
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Country: United States of America
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N 39° 28.821', W 77° 44.903'

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Throughout the morning of the battle, fighting raged here along the Hagerstown Turnpike. At one point, Union and Confederate forces found themselves just yards away from each other on opposite sides of this road. Afterward, commander of the Sixth Wisconsin Infantry Major Rufus Dawes, remembered, "The piles of dead on the Sharpsburg and Hagerstown Turnpike surpassed anything on any other battlefield of my observation . . . my feeling was that the Antietam Turnpike surpassed all in manifest evidence of slaughter."
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HM NumberHMRYG
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Placed ByNational Park Service
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Date Added Tuesday, October 14th, 2014 at 7:51am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 263612 N 4373690
Decimal Degrees39.48035000, -77.74838333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 39° 28.821', W 77° 44.903'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds39° 28' 49.26" N, 77° 44' 54.18" W
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Area Code(s)301
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 5824-6098 Dunker Church Rd, Sharpsburg MD 21782, US
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