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Newspaper coverage - Aaron Good has list of the dead, June 1865

Collection Name

Antietam National Cemetery, 1867

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Local newspaper coverage of Cemetery

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News article from Herald and Torch Light, 1865 about battle at Antietam
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ItemID
wcac802
IDEntry
8512
Creator
Herald & Torch Light
Date
1865-06-14
Collection Location
Washington County Free Library
Subject
Antietam National Cemetery
United States History
Civil War 1861-1865
Registers of dead
Coverage
Washington County, Md; 1862-1869.

The Herald and Torch Light (Hagerstown, Maryland)
Wednesday, Jun 14, 1865

Aaron GOOD of Boonsboro’, has collected the names of between four and five thousand of the dead, and will shortly give the list into the hands of the committee for publication — This list will show to the people of all the states what a deep interest they have in the establishment of a suitable memorial upon this battlefield, one of the most sanguinary and important fought during the war.