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Lt. William Cullen, an officer with the 48th Pennsylvania Regiment, died in the Battle of Antietam Creek during the Civil War ...
The Antietam Creek in Lower Alsace Township, Berks County, spilled over its banks in front of Antietam Middle-Senior High School. The district's superintendent said the school "sustained ...
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so ...
Memorial Day is one of the most sacred days of the year in America, a day in which we are asked to pause to honor the men and women who throughout our nation’s glorious history laid down their lives ...
Tulpehocken Creek (April 22); Swabia Creek (April 23); Antietam Creek, Antietam Reservoir, Willow Creek, Hay Creek, Scotts Run Lake (April 24). Chester County: East Branch of White Clay Creek ...
Burnside commanded the 13,000-man IX Corps ordered to take the strategic bridge over Antietam Creek, a bridge that bears his name today. The general was late to the attack, failing to coordinate ...
Berks County: Antietam Creek, Antietam Reservoir, Furnace Creek (Robesonia), Hay Creek, Kistler Creek, Little Lehigh Creek, Little Swatara Creek, Maiden Creek, Manatawny Creek, Mill Creek ...
They'd been riding high all through their 14-5 win over Antietam. All afternoon, music sounded from the dugout between innings while players shouted encouragement to one another as the Bearcats ...
The Antietam Creek in Lower Alsace Township, Berks County, spilled over its banks in front of Antietam Middle-Senior High School. The district's superintendent said the school "sustained ...
This story was produced as part of Spotlight PA’s new Berks Bureau, an effort to revitalize independent, nonpartisan investigative and public-service journalism in Berks County. To support this ...
The bridge spanning Antietam Creek was simply known as the “lower bridge” when it was the site of the fighting Sept. 17, 1862, when more than 22,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died.