Looking mostly east and south from the Antietam Battlefield Visitor's Center near the Dunker Church.
If on the field before dawn on September 17, 1862,
you would be looking from the Confederate lines towards the Union
positions hidden further within the distant trees.
The cluster of white
structures on the left mid-ground are the Mumma Farm buildings, burned by
the Southerners to deny their use by their Northern
To the far right is the War Department Tower which sits at the South end of the Bloody Lane.
background you can see the South Mountain Range through which the
Union Army forced their southern
foes during the Battle of South Mountain, September 14, 1862.
Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland.