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After the Battle of South Mountain ended around nightfall on September 14, 1862, many Confederates marched through Keedysville. The next day, Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac arrived, and McClellan established his headquarters there in the German Reformed Church. The army bivouacked in and around Keedysville before attacking Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia near Sharpsburg on September 17. After the battle, the bloodiest day in American history, Keedysville became one vast Union hospital. Capt. Oliver Wendell Homes, Jr., son of the poet and future justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, received treatment there for his neck wound. Keedysville hosted Federal troops for several weeks thereafter.
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Keedysville, Maryland · United States
