Antietam Creek Maryland
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Antietam Creek, Maryland
Antietam was fought on Maryland ground
at the foothills of Appalachia.
There McClellan, Lee and Jackson were found
with troops from Potomac and Virginia.
McClellan shrewdly, saved some of his men,
while Lee sent the entire army forward.
Does blood cry out as the withered grass bends?
Should they be buried facing home, southward?
Victors of Antietam, we wonder who?
At Sharpsburg gray clad soldiers left the town.
When all was done and McClellan was through,
Lincoln knew that the Union was still sound.
Route 70 crosses Antietam Creek
where war stories dwell in its murky deep.
12/31/18
Copyright © Janis Medders Tobechi | Year Posted 2019
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