I attended the 2009 Antietam Illumination on December 5, 2009. This is an annual event to commemorate the approximately 23,000 soldiers killed, wounded or missing in action during the September 17, 1862 battle. This was the deadliest one day battle of the Civil War. On the first weekend of December, volunteers place 23,000 candles on the battlefield.
This year the weather did not cooperate as it has in the past. The luminaries were difficult to keep burning as there was heavy, wet snow most of the day. A few pictures from the event and the following morning.
This is a marker near the Sharpsburg (Antietam) train station.
Photos from the event.
Dunker Church. This was used as a hospital during the battle. Are the ghosts from the past?
A row of cannons and one of the memorials on the battlefield.
Burnside Bridge the next morning.
Split rail fence in the snow.
Enjoy and thanks for looking - Ross
