In November of 2023, I stopped at Antietam. I wanted to see the physical land that this the most deadly battle in American history had taken place. I have always been interested in history. My masters was in history. The Civil War was one part of history that fascinated me.
I always remembered photographs of what was known at the time as the Sunken Road. After the battle it was know as Bloody Lane. The images are a haunting description of the wasted lives in war. “Dead Confederates lay so thick there, wrote one Federal soldier, that as far down the road as he could see, a man could have walked upon them without once touching ground.”
I felt very moved as I walked the lane on this beautiful fall day. It seemed almost impossible that such cruelty had taken place in such a beautiful place. But it had. There is no denying the history.
