Where: Antietam National Battlefield. The visitor center is at 5831 Dunker Church Road, Sharpsburg, Md. Significance: The Battle of Antietam, which began on Sept. 17, 1862, was the first major battle in the Civil War to take place on Northern soil. More than 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing in the single bloodiest day of battle in American history. The battle ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's first invasion into the North and led to Abraham Lincoln's issuance of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
Were it not for the graces of good luck, Oliver Wendell Holmes would never have served as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt, Holmes sat on the nation's highest court from 1902-1932. Were it not for the graces of good luck, Holmes' last day on earth might have been Sept. 17, 1862, during the Battle of Antietam, when he was wounded in action.
On Sept. 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States was completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. In 1862, Union forces fought Confederate invaders in the Civil War Battle of Antietam in Maryland; more than 3,600 men were killed.
This book is long-awaited good news for students of the Battle of Antietam and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Maryland Campaign of September 1862. Editor Joseph Pierro has taken Ezra Ayers Carman's manuscript, found at the Library of Congress in handwritten form, and made it into a necessary part of the Antietam lexicon.
Wednesday marks the 146th anniversary of one of the most deadly accidents in Pittsburgh history: the explosion at the former Allegheny Arsenal in Lawrenceville. The disaster killed 78 people, mostly women and girls, and plunged the city into a week of mourning. The accident was reported in the New York Times but otherwise received little notice outside Pittsburgh because it took place on Sept. 17, 1862, during the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War.
WASHINGTON - The site of the single bloodiest day in American history is under siege - threatened by a 120-foot cell phone tower, says a preservation group. The vast field in western Maryland is where the Battle of Antietam was fought on Sept. 17, 1862. It's one of the 10 most endangered Civil War battlefields, according to an annual report released Wednesday from the Civil War Preservation Trust.
The Battle of Antietam, fought near Sharpsburg, Md., on Sept. 17, 1862, was the bloodiest day in American history. Eleven hours of the most savage fighting that has ever occurred on U.S. soil resulted in more than 23,000 casualties, including more than 3,500 dead.
The Battle of Antietam, which occurred this week (Sept. 17) in 1862, was the bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War and remains the bloodiest one-day battle in American history. After a string of victories in Virginia, a Confederate army under Robert E. Lee was making its first foray into Union territory, where it met a Union army under Gen. George McClellan at Antietam Creek, Maryland. McClellan was greatly aided by advance notice of Lee's battle plans - a careless Confederate officer had lost them and a Union soldier had found them - but even so, the battle was a tactical draw.
WASHINGTON - The site of the single bloodiest day in American history is under siege - threatened by a 120-foot cell phone tower, says a preservation group. The vast field in western Maryland is where the Battle of Antietam was fought on Sept. 17, 1862. It's one of the 10 most endangered Civil War battlefields, according to an annual report released Wednesday from the Civil War Preservation Trust.
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