We shall not now urgue this matter. We have the confidence to declare the battle of Antietam one of the greatest ever fought -- its victory substantial and its fruits imperishable. Its effects ...

On September 17, 1862, over 23,000 soldiers fell in a single day near the small town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The battle ...

To this total, Mr. Budiansky’s account in “A Day in September” adds some 3,000 mortally wounded in battle. Antietam also inspired the first intensive photographic coverage of a Civil War ...

Antietam NB protects and interprets a key battle during the US Civil War. The park gives visitors the opportunity to explore an autoroute, hiking trails through the battlefield, and a large ...

Tom Clemens will present "Antietam's Less Than Valorous Leaders," examining Union and Confederate leaders who failed to fulfill their duties during the Battle of Antietam. Clemens, a retired ...

Given the large number of Irishmen who saw action in the American Civil War, the Battle of Antietam must also rank up there as one of the bloodiest days for the Irish. General Francis Meagher's ...

Budiansky focuses on the Battle of Antietam, which took place during the American Civil War in 1862 and left some 3,600 soldiers killed and 16,000 wounded. A military draw, it became a political ...

Gen. John Fulton Reynolds, Lancaster native and rising officer in the Union Army during the Civil War, was not present at the pivotal Battle of Antietam, Maryland, on Sept. 17, 1862. His absence ...

It is entirely logical that people are the primary focus in “A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World it Left Behind” (W. W. Norton & Company, 304 pgs., $32.50). The event ...

At last we have that section of Gen. McCLELLAN's report which gives the history of the battle of Antietam. It attempts an explanation of the failure to follow up LEE after the disastrous defeat ...