Location Details
- Mile 75.61 of C&O Canal, roughly 1 mile downriver from Snyder’s Landing Road Sharpsburg, MD 21782
Some of Sharpsburg’s civilians took shelter in this cave during the Battle of Antietam.
Before and during the Battle of Antietam, some residents of Sharpsburg took shelter in the caves in the hillsides above the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. One of those caves, the Killiansburg Cave, was shown in a contemporary drawing after the battle. The cave is located near the Potomac River about two miles west of Sharpsburg.
For Additional information
- Charles Adams, The Civil War in Washington County, Maryland – A Guide to 66 points of Interest (Shepherdstown, WV: Charles S. Adams, 1996), 22.
