Antietam

[ an-tee-tuhm ]

noun

1. a creek flowing from S Pennsylvania through NW Maryland into the Potomac: Civil War battle fought near here at Sharpsburg, Maryland, in 1862.

Antietam

/ ænˈtiːtəm /

noun

1. a creek in NW Maryland, flowing into the Potomac: scene of a Civil War battle (1862), in which the Confederate forces of General Robert E. Lee were defeated

Example Sentences

Lee, a slaveholder, was the Confederacy’s most renowned general and his forces inflicted tens of thousands of casualties on Union soldiers’ at Antietam, Gettysburg and Manassas.

From TIme

For example, Lee also said he would “never bear arms against the Union” except to defend Virginia — a vow he did not keep at Antietam or Gettysburg.

From Washington Post

In 2011, four years after my tour in Iraq, I walked the Antietam battlefield to remember.

From The Daily Beast

A trip to the Antietam battlefield reminds an Iraq veteran of the friends he lost overseas.

From The Daily Beast

Landscape Turned Red By Stephen Sears As a battle, Antietam might be called a draw.

From The Daily Beast

He learned about Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Manassas, and Antietam.

From The Daily Beast

If 2004 was Antietam, 2008—for liberals, at least—was Juneteenth.

From The Daily Beast

It won glory at South Mountain, and made the narrow bridge of Antietam forever historic.

From Project Gutenberg

So, just before the battle of Antietam, we were in Washington.

From Project Gutenberg

Funkstown is located on Little Antietam creek, about seventy miles west of Baltimore.

From Project Gutenberg

The next day, at nightfall, the Federals were facing Lee's army, the Antietam creek flowing between the hostile ranks.

From Project Gutenberg

Thomas was killed in the Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862.

From Project Gutenberg