Presidential Visits to Antietam Battlefield-- Part 7: Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter was the eighth, and last sitting president to visit Antietam Battlefield.

He did so with his wife Rosalynn and historian Shelby Foote in July 1978.  The story goes that the presidential motorcade made its way from Harper's Ferry up Maryland Route 230.  It was stopped at one point for twenty minutes while a herd of cattle crossed the road.

Wow, visiting a battlefield with someone like Shelby Foote.  The stories he could tell.

--Old Secesh