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SHARPSBURG, MARYLAND—September 17, 1862 dawned with two armies poised for battle near the small Maryland town of Sharpsburg, near Antietam Creek. The combatants, Americans all, would fight and die en ...

In this Dec. 4, 2010 file photo, luminaries are seen across Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md., to commemorate the soldiers who were killed or wounded during the three-day Civil War ...

A newly-discovered map of the Battle of Antietam has shown that thousands of fallen soldiers were temporarily buried on the Civil War Battleground in a stunning visualization of the devastation of the ...

The fighting that killed or wounded 21,000 Americans in the rolling hills of western Maryland was over in about 12 grisly hours. But a century and a half after the bloodiest day in American military ...

Pixelated Apollo breaks down the tactical strategies and devastating casualties of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single-day clash in the American Civil War.

A long-forgotten Civil War map has recently been rediscovered, shedding new light on the bloody aftermath of the battle of Antietam. Some 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing following the ...

What a regiment of inexperienced Indiana soldiers saw at Antietam. By Nicole Etcheson More Americans died on Sept. 17, 1862, at the Battle of Antietam, than any other day in history. By Rick Beard A ...

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.

For the better part of 160 years, military historians have been poring over the movements of Union and Confederate soldiers through southern Washington County in the waning days of the summer of 1862 ...

Historian Mark P. Brugh will discuss "The Slave Block That Never Was" during a free Sept. 21 program in Keedysville.