I visited the park/battlefield this past Spring. What a amazing experience it was. I would recommend this to anyone as a must visit. Thank you all for all your hard work.
I've been to many battlefields. Antietam is my favorite for the beauty of the countryside, how little it has changed since the 1860s, and how it is not overrun by tourists. Hike a 10-mile loop around it, and you are totally immersed. There is a definite spookiness caused by the above factors, combined with the memory of what happened.
The locals have been very careful to protect the history there all these years. A lot of them are descended from the residents of Sharpsburg who went thru the battle.
Recently visited Fredricksburg, Manassas, and Chancellorville battlefields but have been waiting for the new visitor's center at Antietam. This is great news!
I live a mile from the battlefield and am on it daily. I’ve watched this project from the beginning. Keith and his team have done a wonderful job in making over the Center. A lot of infrastructure work was needed before exhibit work could be done. Everyone should come and learn the story of this battle.
To see where we are going we must understand and learn from where we have been. Well done to the NPS for the renovation and of course the presentation by Keith, Garry and the ABT.
I'm really looking forward to making it back to Antietam in the near future. I've been there 6 times but it's been quite a while. It holds a special place for me as I had two great great uncles that faced off against each other in the Cornfield.
We have been to the Antietam Battlefield three times. The last time we were there was this spring (2024). The Museum upgrades are wonderful. That view from that room is just amazing and is the best part was the addition of the map in the middle showing all points. We love coming here and will again. Very well done.
Yes please come visit our beloved Antietam! What a wonderful renovation by the park staff. Also I highly recommend using one of the Antietam Battlefield Guides and attending the Antietam Institute Spring Seminar and Fall Conference.
I have visited Antietam twice. Standing in Bloody Lane, I was in awe of the men who fought there and felt a deep sadness for the men who died right there, piled up waist high.
I'm excited to see the renovated visitor's center, will be even more excited when I'm there in September. Good to see Keith again who I remember from many battlefield hikes. His knowledge and passion are second to none.
What a great facility! I Thank each of you for the dedication to the Hallowed Ground and the education our society so desperately needs about what occured there. As a side, the subtle respect the Ranger is showing is quite impressive
Love the newly renovated National Park Service (NPS) visitor center and can not wait to visit! Thanks to the American Battlefield Trust and NPS for this video preview!
I've visited most all of the major battlefields from Bentonville to Gettysburg and the only that ever bothered me was Manassas and that was 40 years. Funny how that goes.
Great effort by so many. Congratulations to all. A very, very special place that is so deserving of this love and new found inspiration. Thank you all!!
I was there in September of 1997, I remember the 'old' Visitor Center. I was in my Union Civil War uniform[my Great-Great Grandfather served in the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry]as I had been at a reenactment all that morning, and the other people in the building thought I was an employee, as the heel-taps on my brogans clattered on the floor as I walked around. Antietam was one of the last Civil War engagements where the armies could view one another as the formations moved, met and fought across the battle area.
As a 12 yr old in May,1962 my parents, with grandparents in tow, took me and two kid friends to Gettysburg. It was a great day sandwiched in between cruising in dad's new Chris Craft on the Chesapeake. We liked it so much that when dad found out about the Antietam 100 reenactment he planned another weekend away from the water. I remember we parked in a field near enough to the battery close to Dunkard Church that the sound bothered my mother but we could watch the gun crews at work and thru the smoke see some of the assaults on Bloody Lane. Ive been there many times since but those first encounters with fields like these always stand out. Congrats on the new building.
September 17th, 1862!!!! Awesome Tour... Thank You!!! I'm sipping water with lemon out of my new "American Battlefield Trust Water Bottle... Hurrah!!!! ; )
My ancestor fought with the 2nd Louisiana Infantry at Antietam with Starke's Brigade at the Hagerstown Turnpike, he survived and went on to be killed at Gettysburg at Culps Hill.
That’s really awesome! Antietam was the first large battlefield I visited. The ranger that gave the talk in that observation room left a huge impression on me and allowed me to understand that battle so much more. Truly inspired work going on there! Thank you !
I lived in Western Maryland and visited Antietam a few times. Glad to see the upgrades. Still remember seeing a Shaving Kit that a Union solider had lost in a previous battle that was found at Antietam on a Confederate dead. Also the rifle pits that were still evident near a Bridge. If I ever get back that way again I'll pay a visit. Thanks for the memories.
Can't wait to come back to Antietam. I was there right before covid. Dunker church was open and I went in and sat in a pew. I'll be sure to see the newly renovated visitor center.
Big Improvement from the Old Museum. Can't wait to stop by and check it out. It's such a great and well preserved Civil War Battlefield that is pretty much untouched.
I would so like to come to visit there and make such a photo safari myself. Such a remarkable new visitor center and the historic battlefield itself is such an important place to be seen and to be visited.
So nice to see the investment in restoring and modernizing these centers. Last spring, I spent a month touring a broad sweep of over 40 major sites, and it was evident the effort was paying off. Donnellson, Shiloh, Corinth, Antietam, Gettysburg all had major projects in action. Thank You! Money well spent.
Fantastic video, Gary. We visited Antietam last summer and went through the temporary building that was in use, but I can't wait to get back there to see the remodeled visitor center.
I was very impressed with the new visitor center. The bookstore has so much more to intice me now. My wife would say too much. The casualty lightup display is particularly effective in portraying the cost of this battle.
The Visitor Center looks great. I was there years ago when the battlefield was more impressive than the Visitors' Center. Now, it looks like both are terrific for visiting.
Had the opportunity to stop in the new visitor center on Saturday. If you've already visited Antietam, its worth a revisit. Appreciate the content ABT!
I went as a kid (probably around 10) with a summer camp, I saw a man dressed as confederate soldier clear as day, looked away, and when I turned back, he was halfway in a tree and then completely gone.
First time visiting Antietam was this past July. Visitor center was close, but beautiful landscape, hard to believe that 23,000 was kill, wounded and missing
Funny that Tim did a video earlier about interactions with you in early 90’s Now your on talking on antietam at new visitors center. Thank you also for sharing. 💯👍👊
A family group visited Antietam just a week or so before the new center opened. I consider going back to see it a must. Like many other people I think Antietam is the best preserved and observable battlefield in the eastern theatre of the war. I found Gettysburg and the Richmond Area battlefields very sadly disappointing compared to past decades I visited. Cold Harbor and Fredericksburg are particularly neglected. And Spotsylvania battle field has virtually disappeared.
Can we now relocate the Visitor Center off some of the most important and bloodiest ground on the battlefield? It's too bad the NPS has decided to double down on the building with this renovation and even increase its footprint. I realize Antietam doesn't have the financial support that Gettysburg has when Gettysburg relocated its VC, but the VC location at Antietam would be equivalent to putting the Gettysburg VC directly on Cemetery Ridge next to the Copse of Trees.
We might have toured the visitor's center on a family trip in the late 1980s? I remember recounting a story thst we MIGHT have an ancestor who fought there? I loved walking around parts of the battlefield. A happy accident brought me face to face to a product made in our new home city. Was surprised and proud that a product made here was in place like that. I wonder how many people have seen it? Wondered and researched it?
Gary "Good Good" Adelman is probably America's foremost (and certainly the most excitedly enthusiastic) living Civil War expert (sorry historians and history professors). All of which I say "good, good"!
My favorite Battlefield. I'm very sensitive to death and whenever I walk through the sunken road I weep and get very quiet and tear up. I wear sunglasses alot and since this reaction embarrasses me I can hide my emotions. I get very emotional walking this Battlefield, especially the sunken road. Very haunting and very horrific. Such an enormous loss of human life in one day. So so sad! 😔
The braille on the tactile map is all lower case even though the print is all upper case. On the plus side, the braille is contracted and it looks to be extremely durable.
Tactile map needs colored lights for electric map feel! Hey Antietam staff: how about making a Clara Barton interpretive trail up there at the Poffenberger Farm? So much to talk about up there.
Great news. Last time I was at Antietam, the visitor's center was closed due to the renovation. I'm glad it is back as I plan to return there and Gettysburg within the next several weeks. It looks like the handicapped elevator to the basement is no longer there. That is a disappointment as I have mobility issues and stairs are a problem but I may make it as there are not many. Since it was closed so long, I was expecting more and bigger but I will see it soon enough. Too bad Little Round Top wont be open for another year.
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I visited the park/battlefield this past Spring. What a amazing experience it was. I would recommend this to anyone as a must visit. Thank you all for all your hard work.
I've been to many battlefields. Antietam is my favorite for the beauty of the countryside, how little it has changed since the 1860s, and how it is not overrun by tourists. Hike a 10-mile loop around it, and you are totally immersed. There is a definite spookiness caused by the above factors, combined with the memory of what happened.
I stopped there with my Dad on the way back from the Gettysburg anniversary reenactment this year, and it was so quiet and peaceful at Antietam.
I was there about 30 years ago with a friend. It looks like time for another visit.
The locals have been very careful to protect the history there all these years. A lot of them are descended from the residents of Sharpsburg who went thru the battle.
My wife and I was there yesterday and we both enjoyed out time at this historical place.
Thank you Garry for your role in helping to keep our history alive
Recently visited Fredricksburg, Manassas, and Chancellorville battlefields but have been waiting for the new visitor's center at Antietam. This is great news!
That view alone is worth the membership to the American Battlefield Trust🇺🇸
Brings back memories of our family visits when our kids were little in the70s
I live a mile from the battlefield and am on it daily. I’ve watched this project from the beginning. Keith and his team have done a wonderful job in making over the Center. A lot of infrastructure work was needed before exhibit work could be done. Everyone should come and learn the story of this battle.
To see where we are going we must understand and learn from where we have been. Well done to the NPS for the renovation and of course the presentation by Keith, Garry and the ABT.
I'm really looking forward to making it back to Antietam in the near future. I've been there 6 times but it's been quite a while. It holds a special place for me as I had two great great uncles that faced off against each other in the Cornfield.
We have been to the Antietam Battlefield three times. The last time we were there was this spring (2024). The Museum upgrades are wonderful. That view from that room is just amazing and is the best part was the addition of the map in the middle showing all points. We love coming here and will again. Very well done.
Garry, I love that you still get so excited about all of this!
Gary is a great guy!
Yes please come visit our beloved Antietam! What a wonderful renovation by the park staff. Also I highly recommend using one of the Antietam Battlefield Guides and attending the Antietam Institute Spring Seminar and Fall Conference.
Thanks for sharing this. Really looking forward to getting back out there and seeing the new facility.
I have visited Antietam twice. Standing in Bloody Lane, I was in awe of the men who fought there and felt a deep sadness for the men who died right there, piled up waist high.
I'm excited to see the renovated visitor's center, will be even more excited when I'm there in September. Good to see Keith again who I remember from many battlefield hikes. His knowledge and passion are second to none.
What a great facility! I Thank each of you for the dedication to the Hallowed Ground and the education our society so desperately needs about what occured there. As a side, the subtle respect the Ranger is showing is quite impressive
Fun watching Garry getting all geeked out about the new visitor center facilities.
Thx Gary...
I was there the end of May while it was still under construction.... can't wait to return
Love the newly renovated National Park Service (NPS) visitor center and can not wait to visit! Thanks to the American Battlefield Trust and NPS for this video preview!
I enjoyed my visit back 10 years ago. A very somber feel to the whole area, knowing how many souls perished there.
I've visited most all of the major battlefields from Bentonville to Gettysburg and the only that ever bothered me was Manassas and that was 40 years. Funny how that goes.
I used to volunteer there, for ten years. I can’t wait to see it.
Great effort by so many. Congratulations to all. A very, very special place that is so deserving of this love and new found inspiration.
Thank you all!!
I was there in September of 1997, I remember the 'old' Visitor Center. I was in my Union Civil War uniform[my Great-Great Grandfather served in the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry]as I had been at a reenactment all that morning, and the other people in the building thought I was an employee, as the heel-taps on my brogans clattered on the floor as I walked around. Antietam was one of the last Civil War engagements where the armies could view one another as the formations moved, met and fought across the battle area.
So happy that these important places are so greatly cared for! Thank you Battlefield Trust and National Park Service!
Gary looks like a kid visiting a candy factory, I love it 😂
Super excited to visit
Glad Mr.Snyder is still there!
Hey Gary it was so great to meet you on this day.Thanks so much for taking a picture with us.We felt like we met a rock star😜 Keep up the great work👍
You too!!
Gary IS a rock star!
As a 12 yr old in May,1962 my parents, with grandparents in tow, took me and two kid friends to Gettysburg. It was a great day sandwiched in between cruising in dad's new Chris Craft on the Chesapeake. We liked it so much that when dad found out about the Antietam 100 reenactment he planned another weekend away from the water.
I remember we parked in a field near enough to the battery close to Dunkard Church that the sound bothered my mother but we could watch the gun crews at work and thru the smoke see some of the assaults on Bloody Lane. Ive been there many times since but those first encounters with fields like these always stand out.
Congrats on the new building.
Can't wait to re visit Antietam I was there back in 2015 or so
September 17th, 1862!!!! Awesome Tour... Thank You!!! I'm sipping water with lemon out of my new "American Battlefield Trust Water Bottle... Hurrah!!!! ; )
My ancestor fought with the 2nd Louisiana Infantry at Antietam with Starke's Brigade at the Hagerstown Turnpike, he survived and went on to be killed at Gettysburg at Culps Hill.
That’s really awesome! Antietam was the first large battlefield I visited. The ranger that gave the talk in that observation room left a huge impression on me and allowed me to understand that battle so much more. Truly inspired work going on there! Thank you !
Antietam, "That Field of Blood".
Beautiful enhanced center! Can't wait to visit.
I lived in Western Maryland and visited Antietam a few times. Glad to see the upgrades. Still remember seeing a Shaving Kit that a Union solider had lost in a previous battle that was found at Antietam on a Confederate dead. Also the rifle pits that were still evident near a Bridge. If I ever get back that way again I'll pay a visit. Thanks for the memories.
My son and i visited July 2022 and genuinely loved the visit.
Can't wait to come back to Antietam. I was there right before covid. Dunker church was open and I went in and sat in a pew. I'll be sure to see the newly renovated visitor center.
Cool, cool, cool. Congratulations! Well done! Hello from Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷.
I just missed this! I visited Antietam for the first time after the 2023 teacher conference.
Big Improvement from the Old Museum. Can't wait to stop by and check it out. It's such a great and well preserved Civil War Battlefield that is pretty much untouched.
Looks great, folks. Can't wait to visit.
We were there in 2009.I would like to go back and see it now.
I would so like to come to visit there and make such a photo safari myself. Such a remarkable new visitor center and the historic battlefield itself is such an important place to be seen and to be visited.
So nice to see the investment in restoring and modernizing these centers. Last spring, I spent a month touring a broad sweep of over 40 major sites, and it was evident the effort was paying off. Donnellson, Shiloh, Corinth, Antietam, Gettysburg all had major projects in action. Thank You! Money well spent.
There should be a lot more of it coming from the government.
Fantastic video, Gary. We visited Antietam last summer and went through the temporary building that was in use, but I can't wait to get back there to see the remodeled visitor center.
Thanks Guys - was at Antietam last in 2021, and of course, the center was closed. Looking forward to a return trip!
Very nicely done. Great presentation and informational comments
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Looks amazing, I look forward to visiting in person.
Looks very good; big improvement.
I was very impressed with the new visitor center. The bookstore has so much more to intice me now. My wife would say too much. The casualty lightup display is particularly effective in portraying the cost of this battle.
I went to Gettysburg few months ago. That visitor center is nice too. Got to make my way to Antietam soon.
1:36 is my favorite part
Can’t wait to see the new center! It looks great!
Sacred place, thank you!
Hey it’s good to see everything come together!
The Visitor Center looks great. I was there years ago when the battlefield was more impressive than the Visitors' Center. Now, it looks like both are terrific for visiting.
I can’t wait to go back👍
They should do videos on all civil war visitor centers.
Hope they still have the old interactive map that showed how the battle unfolded.
At about 0:14, when Garry says he's "super excited to be here," is he ever NOT super excited? 😁
No. Never. He is the cool in cucumber.
Major Garry geek out 😂❤❤
The Liberty Rifles and other groups helped with a new film for this visitor center, you'll get to see the most authentic group to date
Good Good
Wow! I was literally there last weekend! The new visitor center is impressive!
I was there last year while it was still being worked on! Can't wait to return!
Had the opportunity to stop in the new visitor center on Saturday. If you've already visited Antietam, its worth a revisit. Appreciate the content ABT!
I went as a kid (probably around 10) with a summer camp, I saw a man dressed as confederate soldier clear as day, looked away, and when I turned back, he was halfway in a tree and then completely gone.
Wow
An impressive facility, a vast improvement, indeed, as long as AC is installed and works. Maryland gets awfully hot and humid in the summer.
First time visiting Antietam was this past July. Visitor center was close, but beautiful landscape, hard to believe that 23,000 was kill, wounded and missing
I can not wait to go see this!
thank you
can't wait to see it on the anniversary!
Funny that Tim did a video earlier about interactions with you in early 90’s Now your on talking on antietam at new visitors center. Thank you also for sharing. 💯👍👊
Can not wait to visit next month!
I will be there in March can't wait
Very nice.
Great job guys!
A family group visited Antietam just a week or so before the new center opened. I consider going back to see it a must. Like many other people I think Antietam is the best preserved and observable battlefield in the eastern theatre of the war. I found Gettysburg and the Richmond Area battlefields very sadly disappointing compared to past decades I visited. Cold Harbor and Fredericksburg are particularly neglected. And Spotsylvania battle field has virtually disappeared.
My Trip to Gettysburg now has a detour down route 70. Sure Hubby won't mind this detour. So excited
Can we now relocate the Visitor Center off some of the most important and bloodiest ground on the battlefield? It's too bad the NPS has decided to double down on the building with this renovation and even increase its footprint. I realize Antietam doesn't have the financial support that Gettysburg has when Gettysburg relocated its VC, but the VC location at Antietam would be equivalent to putting the Gettysburg VC directly on Cemetery Ridge next to the Copse of Trees.
I agree, but that horse has left the barn
@@tumbleweed2240 Yes it has.
The new building looks beautiful ❤
I am a reenactor and when I found this it was like 5 seconds before I subscribed
Glorious!!!!!!
I also met Gary at my North and South Skirmish association nationals in Virginia it was a treat to have such amazing historian
He’s no Ed Bearss.
@douglasdelong1526 who cares Gary is the new GOAT and Keith I met Keith in September 2001
Wow. Glad it’s finished! Can’t wait to visit again!
We might have toured the visitor's center on a family trip in the late 1980s? I remember recounting a story thst we MIGHT have an ancestor who fought there? I loved walking around parts of the battlefield. A happy accident brought me face to face to a product made in our new home city. Was surprised and proud that a product made here was in place like that. I wonder how many people have seen it? Wondered and researched it?
Thank you.
Well done!
Will be there Saturday 😊
Gary "Good Good" Adelman is probably America's foremost (and certainly the most excitedly enthusiastic) living Civil War expert (sorry historians and history professors). All of which I say "good, good"!
love a good visitor center.
absolutely awesome cant wait!
lol Tim really did use the perfect word in describing Garry 🤣🤣🤣
edit: He used "Frantic" lol
I was there a few weeks ago, a week before they open. I wish I could have waited for this to open. I will be back I promise
My favorite Battlefield. I'm very sensitive to death and whenever I walk through the sunken road I weep and get very quiet and tear up. I wear sunglasses alot and since this reaction embarrasses me I can hide my emotions. I get very emotional walking this Battlefield, especially the sunken road. Very haunting and very horrific. Such an enormous loss of human life in one day. So so sad! 😔
The braille on the tactile map is all lower case even though the print is all upper case. On the plus side, the braille is contracted and it looks to be extremely durable.
I’ll come visit this weekend!!!!
Tactile map needs colored lights for electric map feel!
Hey Antietam staff: how about making a Clara Barton interpretive trail up there at the Poffenberger Farm? So much to talk about up there.
It’s a very nice visitors center. I didn’t know about the upstairs though.
They should attach a watchtower to the Visitor Center. It’s in a perfect location on top of a hill between the Cornfield and Bloody Lane.
There's too much infrastructure the way it is.
Great news. Last time I was at Antietam, the visitor's center was closed due to the renovation. I'm glad it is back as I plan to return there and Gettysburg within the next several weeks. It looks like the handicapped elevator to the basement is no longer there. That is a disappointment as I have mobility issues and stairs are a problem but I may make it as there are not many. Since it was closed so long, I was expecting more and bigger but I will see it soon enough.
Too bad Little Round Top wont be open for another year.
The elevator is still there!