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| | Whilbr - Confederate Soldiers |
 | | The charter of the Antietam National Cemetery granted by the legislature of Maryland in 1864, and amended in1865, provided for the purchase, enclosing and ornamenting of ten acres of land, part of the battlefield of Antietam, as a final resting place for the soldiers who fell in that battle. |
 | | It declared it was the duty of the Trustees of the respective States to remove the remains of all the soldiers who fell at the battle, and have them properly interred in these grounds. |
 | | In 1869 Governor Bowie requested Thomas Boullt, of Hagerstown, Maryland, one of the Trustees for Maryland in the Antietam Cemetery, employ agents to go over the battlefield and mound up the trenches and graves of the Confederate dead, to make careful notes of the locations and, as far as possible, identify the dead. |
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