Needing rest for her painful knee, Linda remained at the hotel in Chambersburg while I drove down across the Maryland state line to the Antietam National Battlefield at Sharpsburg.

This is a large, well maintained military park honoring one of the most bitterly contested battles of the Civil War.

I elected to take the self-guided auto tour. The location pictured here is refered to as the West Woods.

It was here at around 9:30 a.m. that Union forces led by Gen. Edwin Sunmer suffered 2,200 in killed and wounded in about 20 minutes from combined Confederate artillery and infantry fire.