Local newspaper coverage of Cemetery

Herald of Freedom and Torch Light, October 16, 1872

ANTIETAM NATIONAL CEMETERY

THE ANTIETAM CEMETERY—

ANTIETAM NATIONAL CEMETERY.

We are indebted to Thomas A. Boullt, Esq., for a Circular, published by the Trustees of the Antietam National Cemetery.

It contains a list of the names of all the dead Union soldiers that are sleeping on the historic field of Antietam, that have as yet been identified. They are alphabetically arranged; according to State, company and regiment, as far as possible.

1503 have been identified by name, State and regiment, while 603 are accredited to the States to which they belonged, but their names are unknown.

The Antietam Cemetery

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.

Maryland Herald & Hagerstown Weekly Advertiser
Jan 19, 1872

Antietam Cemetery.
We learn from the Herald that the officers of last year were re-elected and that the Governor (which one is not stated) has re-appointed Judge Weisel [?] Trustee. There is a surplus of $15,000 in the Treasury and a soldiers monument has been contracted for, which is to cost $30,000, the pedestal 25 feet high, and the statue 20 feet and weighing 65 tons. It is to be built by J. G. Batterson of Connecticut and completed in two years.