Stone Wall, Burnside Bridge Area: Historic Structures Report, Part I, Antietam National Battlefield Site
Stinson DE. 1961. Stone Wall, Burnside Bridge Area: Historic Structures Report, Part I, Antietam National Battlefield Site. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Antietam National Battlefield
This report documents the stone wall in the Burnside Bridge Area at Antietam National Battlefield, primarily focusing on the historical data. This begins with a record of ownership and land transactions, beginning in 1846 and continuing through 1940 when the property was donated to the U.S. Government. The stone wall was built before 1862. It is a dry wall constructed of limestone, running north from the Burnside Bridge along the east bank of the Antietam. The wall is historically significant for its use as a defensive position by Federal troops during the Battle of Antietam, facing against the Confederate troops as they fired on the Burnside Bridge. The wall appears in photographs and sketches of the battle. At the time of the report, all that remained were ruins of the wall, overgrown with vegetation.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Stinson, Dwight
- Date of Issue
- 1961-11-21
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- ANTI , NCR
- Keywords
- Battle of Antietam, Brady, Burnside Bridge, Civil War, Dorsey tract, dry laid, Edwin Forbes, land transaction, limestone, stone wall, Tipton, Washington County Historical Society
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 048253: Burnside Bridge; Wall (W-23-H)