Looking northeast from the north end of Branch Avenue. Monuments to the 45th Pennsylvania Infantry (left) and 100th Pennsylvania Infantry (right) stand halfway up the steep banks of the bluffs that line the draw that leads from Antietam Creek (out of sight to the right) to the village of Sharpsburg (out of sight to the left). Further down the bluffs at the left of the photo Rodman Avenue crosses a bridge over modern Burnside Bridge Road to end at Old Burnside Bridge Road (heading right across the center of the photo) and the start of Branch Avenue (heading left). In the distance the chimneys of the Sherrick farmhouse stick above the trees, pointing at the ruins of the Sherrick barn. The Otto farmhouse is just out of the photo to the right.
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