Antietam National Cemetery

Map of locations in Allegany, Washington and Frederick Counties, Maryland, from which bodies were removed for re-interment in Antietam National Cemetery. Garrett County was not created from Allegany until 1872, so Oakland, Fort Pendelton, and Bloomington are shown in Allegany County. There were also 11 bodies brought from Fulton County, Pennsylvania.

An alphabetical list of soldiers interred in Antietam National Cemetery at the time of the dedication service in 1867. The list does not include those unidentified soldiers re-interred from locations throughout Western Maryland.

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.

TRUSTEES
WHO HAVE DIED, RESIGNED, OR BEEN APPOINTED SINCE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE BOARD.

MARYLAND.
THOMAS A. BOULLT, original Trustee named in Charter; term expired January 1st. 1868; succeeded by JAMES H. GROVE.

AUGUSTIN A. BIGGS, M. D., original Trustee named in Charter; first President of the Board; term expired January 1st, 1868; succeeded by GEN. CHARLES E. PHELPS.

GEN. EDWARD SHRIVER, original Trustee named in Charter; term expired January 1st, 1866; re-appointed for three years; term expired January 1st, 1869. Re-appointed.

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.

Antietam National Cemetery and Battlefield Site is currently administered the U.S. Department of the Interior. The cemetery was established in 1862, but title to the land was not transferred to the War Department until 1877.
The present day appearance of the cemetery with neat rows of grave stones did not come into being until the War Department began administering the property.

The Lodge at the entrance to the cemetery is visible in this photograph, but the large statue now in the center of the cemetery was not placed there until 1880, when it was fully paid for.