Crossword-Solution: SHARPSBURG
We have 1 clue for the answer “SHARPSBURG”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Town near Antietam | 1 answer |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "SHARPSBURG"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Love or hate, for instance
?
E
?
M
?
O
?
T
?
I
?
O
?
N
Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
OETONIM
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
8 +1
New Suggestion for "SHARPSBURG"
Related word tools
Sentences with SHARPSBURG (5)
But I did, and, riding night and day, came up with General Early at a point in Maryland some miles beyond the old battlefield of Sharpsburg.
Antietam (so called from the Antietam Creek) or Sharpsburg (so called from the Confederate headquarters there) was one of the biggest battles of the Civil War; and it might possibly have been the most momentous.
There seems little doubt that he did not perceive the turning of the tide of English public opinion, in the autumn of 1862, following the Emancipation Proclamation and the great reverses of September and October--Antietam-Sharpsburg, Perryville, Corinth--the backflow of all three of the Confederate offensives.
The battle of Antietam or Sharpsburg began at dawn of the 17th, but by that time Jackson had arrived and both he and Lee had so far recovered from their injuries that they were able to be in the saddle and personally direct the movements of their men.
General Branch was killed and General Anderson received wounds at Sharpsburg of which he soon died, and left grief in many hearts for their untimely end.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1985).