the bridge became important “when a small force of Confederates defending the critical crossing over Antietam Creek held off Ambrose E. Burnside’s 9th Corps for several hours,” the release said.

SHARPSBURG, Md. (AP) -- The National Park Service says part of a stone wall of the Burnside Bridge at Antietam National Battlefield has fallen into Antietam Creek. The agency said Friday that it ...

At Antietam, Burnside forced his troops into repeated assaults across a narrow bridge dominated by Confederate ... futile frontal assaults. In January 1863, he launched an offensive beset by ...

BEAUFORT, N.C.—The nonprofit group that raised money to help preserve the wreckage of Blackbeard’s flagship off the North Carolina coast has disbanded amid lawsuits alleging copyright ...

On Sept. 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Md., more than 23,000 young men of the North and South fell dead or wounded in the Civil War's Battle of Antietam. No one day of U.S. military combat before or ...

Ambrose Burnside`s 12,000 Federals bottled up on the east side of the Antietam Creek. At the bridge the copper-colored, swift-flowing Antietam is about 50 feet wide and the wooded hills on the ...

Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside received orders to press Lee’s army below Sharpsburg, where a humpbacked bridge spanned Antietam Creek. Burnside held the advantage of 12,500 troops of his 9 ...

giving Burnside Bridge its first major restoration work since the 1950s. Antietam National Battlefield officials are planning to repair long-term damage caused to the bridge by water and general ...

ANTIETAM BRIDGE, WILLIAMSPORT ROAD, Saturday, July 11.} Yesterday the army began to take positions, driving back the enemy's cavalry to near Funkstown LEE is strongly intrenched, and has a strong ...

SHARPSBURG — Burnside Bridge at Antietam National Battlefield will not reopen to pedestrian traffic until repairs are completed this fall, according to battlefield Superintendent Susan Trail.

newspaper of Hagerstown that the Burnside Bridge will remain closed until at least this fall. Problems surfaced in January 2014 when some stones from the three-arch bridge fell into Antietam Creek ...