I spent yesterday with a friend from the Crimson visiting the Civil War battlefield at Antietam. The battlefield, which centers around Antietam Creek, but is actually in the town of Sharpsburg, was the bloodiest day on American soil. In the single day of fighting, out of about 130,000 troops, 23,000 men were killed, wounded, or missing by day’s end.
The scale of the devastation was incredible.
The National Park Service tells the story of the battle:
On September 16, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan confronted Lee
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