Dunker Church

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Great photos.....I always laugh when I read the name of the denomination. How come they were called "Dunkers" and the rest got to be "Baptists" ?

They believed in full immersion where many if not most sects recognized "sprinkling" as sufficient. Here's a shot similar to Andrea's I took this fall:

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One of my favorite places at Antietam. I had never been in the church until the last time I was there this May and had been there several times before. It was never opened up any other time I went. I imagine it's only open certain hours but is it only open certain days too?
 
After a hard fight with heavy losses at Crampton's Pass, on the following morning the 17th of September, the 16th NY Volunteers marched 12 miles to the sound of the guns at Sharpsburg. They arrived on the battlefield around noon, relieving part of Sumner's Corps, and took a position in front of the Dunker Church. They were not engaged that afternoon but did absorb constant artillery fire.
As night fell, the men began the grim task of collecting the dead and wounded. The following passage is from From Bull Run to Chancellorsville by Newton Martin Curtis, who was a Captain of the regiment.

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I think of this macabre tale whenever I visit the Dunker Church at Antietam.
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After a hard fight with heavy losses at Crampton's Pass, on the following morning the 17th of September, the 16th NY Volunteers marched 12 miles to the sound of the guns at Sharpsburg. They arrived on the battlefield around noon, relieving part of Sumner's Corps, and took a position in front of the Dunker Church. They were not engaged that afternoon but did absorb constant artillery fire.
As night fell, the men began the grim task of collecting the dead and wounded. The following passage is from From Bull Run to Chancellorsville by Newton Martin Curtis, who was a Captain of the regiment.

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I think of this macabre tale whenever I visit the Dunker Church at Antietam.
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That was so creepy I downloaded the book.
 
Hope to get back to Antietam soon. Just a nice place to visit with good vision of the battlefield,etc.
Been up there 4 times and still haven't seen everything I intended to see.
 
There was a very moving scene in the official history of the 3rd N.C. Infantry. The unit had taken heavy casualties at Antietam in the fighting around Mumma Farm and the Cornfield. Ten months later the unit was on the same field again as part of Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania. They held a memorial service for the Antietam dead near the Dunker church, eliciting tears from some of the old veterans.

A couple of weeks later the 3rd would again suffer massive casualties, this time on the slopes of Culp's Hill at Gettysburg.
 
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