In the South, it is called the Battle of Sharpsburg. The North had been humiliated in early battles. The land looks much the same as it did then. There is no Hardee's here. Along the roadsides, plaques mark positions and events of the battle.
Monuments are rare.
There is, near the center of the battlefield, a stretch of sunken road bordered on both sides by the wooden fencing of the time. That's what this road came to be called. More than 5,000 soldiers fell here. American men, both sides. In four hours.