Location Details
- Shepherdstown Pike (MD 34)Sharpsburg MD 21782
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The Lee Headquarters Marker indicates the location of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s headquarters during the Battle of Antietam.
On September 17, 1936, the West Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy placed a monument on this site to mark the location of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s headquarters from September 15 to September 18, 1862. It is from this location that Lee directed the actions of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the September 17, 1862 Battle of Antietam. The monument is located in a grove of oak trees just outside of Sharpsburg, Maryland.
The land and monument were donated to the Federal government on July 4th, 1942, and the site is presently administered by Antietam National Battlefield.
