Shepherdstown Battlefield Preservation Association

September 17 is the 161st anniversary the Battle of Antietam and Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 19-20, mark the anniversary of the Battle of Shepherdstown, which was the final battle of Robert E. Lee’s 1862 Maryland campaign. Saturday and Sunday, September 16-17 the Shepherdstown Battlefield Preservation Association will be setting up a table in front of the museum on German Street to give visitors […]

The bloodiest day in American military history took place on Sept. 17, 1862, in Maryland just across the river from Shepherdstown. To mark the Battle of Antietam's anniversary, on Sunday, Sept. 17 , the Shepherdstown Opera House will host the first theater screening of "Shepherdstown Remembers Antietam", an original film written and produced by local history […]