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Antietam is well worth seeing, and I hope you make it there sometime.

All of the battlefields mentioned in the article are worth going to, but some of the more out of the way sites left the deepest impression on me. The half dozen battlefields around the time of the Seven Days Before Richmond campaign are truly haunting, not only the large ones, like Malvern Hill, but especially the smaller ones like Gain's Mill and Bever Dam Creek.

Visited Antietam just last week. Very beautiful, peaceful, and isolated. The Bloody Lane. Burnside Bridge. Very difficult to imagine the horrors of 140-some years ago there. Unlike Gettysburg where, if you've seen the movie, you can see it all in your mind. Walked that mile in the footsteps of Pickett's charge. Once again, very difficult to recreate in my mind the courage that would have been required to step out across that field in 1863 under cannon fire. Instead, my little daughter picked flowers along the way. We have so little idea these days how much all we have cost our fathers and grandfathers and great-great-grandfathers.

I have seen Gettysburg, Antietam, Fredricksburg, Wilderness Battle field , Spotsylvania battle field , Chancellorsville ( were Robert E. Lee and Gen. Stonewall Thomas Jackson made the historic strategic move by splitting his forces, and were Stonewall Jackson got mortally wounded ), BullRun battle field ( the battle of Manassas ) Manassas Virgina,
One historic fact that has not been well known is ? Brandywine Virgina was used as a staging ground area for both the Army of the Potomac ( Army of Northern Virgina, most notability the Confederate army ) and the Union Army ( the Federal Army ) of course, not at the same time.
The Civil War documentary was a great documentary, and in that documentary, they said that the battle of Wilderness was horrifying because while the troops shot off their guns, the gun fire caused the trees and plants on the Wilderness battle field to catch fire, and many men were burned alive during the battle.
The battle of Cold Harbor was another horrifying battle in it's own right.