They say history is written by the victors, but I'm not always so sure. The forces of the Union roundly and rightfully defeated the forces of slavery known as the Confederacy, but 140 years later I'm not sure it's the victors who tell the whole story.
Some things are known by their Union name. The decisive battle of September 17, 1862 is known as the Battle of Antietam, not Sharpsburg, as the Confederates knew it.
Then there's the little-known Battle of Monocacy. Get off Interstate 70 at Fredericksburg, Maryland, and follow the signs and you'll learn how a raw group of Union soldiers held off crack Confederate soldiers for a single day, preventing them from getting to an undefended Washington DC before it could be refortified. But there are monuments everywhere funded by the Daughters …