Sharpsburg, Maryland, a small town of well under 1,000 souls, is best known as the site of the Civil War's Battle of Antietam (or, if you are a Confederacy devotee, the Battle of Sharpsburg), which has the sad distinction of occupying the history books as the bloodiest day this country has ever seen, tallying more than 20,000 dead, wounded, or missing on both sides. As it happens, Sharpsburg is also the setting for t…
