...bundant fences of rail and stone, buildings, and well-located strips of woodland. Dunker Chapel was near a hotly contested spot, being equidistant from Newkirk Bridge, the Potomac upper bend, and Sharpsburg . It was quite enveloped by a small forest that stretched off for a half mile toward the Potomac. People called this forest the Dunker Woods. No prize of chivalry was ever more desperately con...