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Article: Tourists to tread where Rebels raided.(Metropolitan)(Life)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 27, 2000
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Over two unseasonably warm September days almost 140 years ago, 45,000 armed men waded through the Potomac River into Montgomery County looking for a fight.
Twelve days and 70 miles later, they found it.
On Sept. 17, 1862, near Antietam Creek, 26,000 men were killed or wounded in the darkest hour of Maryland's history and the bloodiest single day of the Civil War.
Now the state's Office of Tourism and Development is putting perspective on the circumstances that led to the confrontation by blazing a trail that will recreate that meandering first invasion of the North by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia.
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