GRAVE MATTERS

THIS SPRING, researchers at the New York Public Library discovered a map marking burial trenches and the individual grave sites where more than 5,800 Union and Confederate soldiers killed at the Battle of Antietam were originally interred. Drafted in 1864 by California-based cartographer Simon G. Elliott, the detailed map measures 80 by 57 centimeters.

Elliott’s map locates 2,644 Union and