Place your own luminary at Antietam house

A tourism group is asking travelers to add lights to the 23,000 that will decorate the Antietam National Battlefield during the traditional illumination on Dec. 5. The Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area plans to place candles in paper bags outside of the Newcomer House, a farmhouse where the Federal army cared for wounded after the Sept. 17, 1862, battle. • Details