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| Cannons in front of the Roulette Farm
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| Dunker Church, the center of the battlefield
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| The park ranger tells us about the battle
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| Memorial for the New York Volunteer Infantry
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| Monument to... someone
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| Me at the battlefield
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| 1857 Model 12-pounder Howitzer
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| More cannons... they could launch over a mile
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| Memorial to a commander who appears to be conducting
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| The Miller Cornfield
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| More corn... the bulk of the fighting happened here
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| The Poffenberger farm
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| The Miller cornfield
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| Some flowers in the corn
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| Look closely ... a groundhog
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| The same groundhog
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| A closer shot of my buddy the groundhog
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| Cows at the Poffenberger farm
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| More cows
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| I like cows, okay?
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| Close up of some corn
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| There was a lot of corn
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| The East Woods
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| Memorial for the 50th Pennsylvania Regiment
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| The simplicity of this monument said more to me than the giant concrete ones... the inscription reads "A Hot Place"
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| More memorials and my car
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| Cannons along Cornfield Avenue
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| A zigzag fence
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| Doesn't Oliver Wendall Holmes Jr. look a little like dalexand?
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| My locked car with the keys in it is hiding along that road... note that I am not in it
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| A zigzag fence along the Sunken Road (aka Bloody Lane)
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| Burnside Bridge, named for General Burnside of the Union forces
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| Troops from Georgia kept Burnside from getting across
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| Burnside is the originator of sideburns
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| Imagine trying to get an army across that bridge
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| A slightly phallic looking monument for the 21st Massachusetts Volunteers
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| This is the "best known landmark" of the battlefield
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| Antietam Creek as seen from the Burnside Bridge
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