ALL RIGHT, DALENCIA THANK YOU. WELL, TODAY MARKS THE 161ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM, WHICH TOOK PLACE RIGHT HERE IN MARYLAND AND REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR.

But there's always been more to the Battle of Antietam than that, and historians have been piecing that jigsaw together, too. At the Antietam National Battlefield, park officials have been drawing ...

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 ...

Today is the 150 th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest battle in American history. About 23,000 men died, were wounded, or went missing over the course of the single-day battle.

By James McPherson in Antietam: The Battle That Changed The Course of the Civil War. The cornfield was just the beginning the carnage that was unleashed on that Wednesday in September. There were ...

But its splendors were soon dimmed with the smoke rising from the battle-field. To enable the reader to understand the events of this day, he should look at a map which has laid out the principal ...

Rodman was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862. This was the bloodiest single day in American military history; there were 23,000 casualties in about 12 hours of fighting.

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Last weekend, William Vandall made the trip to Maryland to commemorate the Battle of Antietam. This is an accounting of his visit. Over the weekend, a historic moment passed 160 years ...

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