Sharpsburg

News conferences near the site of what is now Sharpsburg Drive were held over the years, trying to drum up leads.

Wallace looked at rural communities near Washington - in Maryland, Virginia and eastern West Virginia - including Sharpsburg and the community of Red Hill near Keedysville, and the impact of war and Reconstruction on how they developed.

That victory came on Sept. 17 in the farmlands around Sharpsburg.

That little building on High Street in Sharpsburg, built in 1866 to serve the Methodist Episcopal congregation, quickly began serving double-duty as a school for Black children.

Defense attorneys for Wilson of Sharpsburg had insisted during the weeklong trial in Bulloch County Superior Court that he should be acquitted on all charges.