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Antietam National Battlefield is a National Park Service-protected area along Antietam Creek in Sharpsburg, Washington County, northwestern Maryland. It commemorates the American Civil War Battle of Antietam that occurred on September 17, 1862.
Reenactment at the American Museum in Bath, England Reenactor plays the fife at The Angle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.. American Civil War reenactments have drawn a fairly sizable following of enthusiastic participants, young and old, willing to brave the elements and expend money and resources to duplicate the events down to the smallest recorded detail.
The Battle of Antietam (/ æ n ˈ t iː t əm / an-TEE-təm), also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek.
Antietam National Battlefield visitor center renovation provides renewed and deeper look at Sept. 17, 1862, conflict and what led to it.
The Battle of Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862 yielded over 23,000 casualties including dead, wounded, or soldiers missing in action, giving it the title of the single bloodiest day in American history.
This is a list of the costliest land battles of the American Civil War, measured by casualties (killed ... Antietam (Sharpsburg) Maryland campaign: September 17, 1862:
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co. Advance the colors Pennsylvania Civil War Battle Flags, Vol 1, by Richard A Sauers and the Capitol Preservation Committee, p. 143
Brig. Gen Robert Ransom Jr.'s Official Report for the Battle of Antietam; W.A. Day (1898). True history of Company I, 49th Regiment, North Carolina Troops, in the great Civil War between the North and South. Printed at the Enterprise Job Offices, Newton N.C. Civil War Letter From Colonel LeRoy M. McAfee, CSA