Battle of Antietam illustration   Save
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Description: The Battle of Antietam was the culmination of the Maryland Campaign of 1862, the first invasion of the North by Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. Fought on September 17, 1862, it still ranks as the bloodiest one-day battle in American history. Over 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing after twelve hours of savage combat. This artistic rendering of the Battle of Antietam appears in "The Pictorial History of the Great Civil War," published by John Laird Wilson in 1878. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04209
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Battlefields; Other--Non Ohio
Places: Antietam (Maryland)