Sightseeing
History BuffAntietam National Battlefield
Under $25Drive or walk the fields where the Battle of Antietam was fought on September 17, 1862, from Dunker Church to Burnside Bridge.
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Museums
Pry House Field Hospital Museum
Farmhouse near Keedysville, Maryland, that served as a Union headquarters and medical base during the 1862 Battle of Antietam.
Keedysville, MD
About Pry House Field Hospital Museum
The Pry House sits on a rise above Antietam Creek in Maryland. Philip Pry built it in the 1840s with bricks he made on his own land. In September 1862 the Union Army took over the property as a staging area before the battle. General George McClellan and his staff used the grounds to watch the fighting, and Medical Department leaders under Jonathan Letterman ran their operations from the site. Wounded men were treated in the house and in Philip's barn, and two Union generals were brought inside for care. Major General Israel Richardson died there in November 1862. The Pry family suffered heavy losses from the army's occupation and later moved to Tennessee.
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