Aftermath Along the Hagerstown Turnpike

Throughout the morning of the battle, fighting raged along the Hagerstown Turnpike, and at one point Union and Confederate forces found themselves just yards away from each other on opposite sides of the road. Afterward, Major Rufus Dawes, commander of the Sixth Wisconsin Infantry, remembered that the piles of dead on the Sharpsburg and Hagerstown Turnpike surpassed anything on any other battlefield he had observed, and that the Antietam Turnpike surpassed all in manifest evidence of slaughter.

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