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 ...

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 ...

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.

The tattered map shows where the bodies of 300 Confederates were buried, row on row just outside a sunken farm lane called Hog Trough Road where they fought that day. A few yards away, the graves of ...

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 ...

SHARPSBURG, Md. — Whether you're one of the estimated 362,000 annual visitors to Antietam National Battlefield or a local resident driving by the national park, you've probably seen the cast-iron War ...

The battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, remains the bloodiest single day of combat in American military history. Several of my relatives on my father's side were there ...

Contributing significantly to Oxford's new academic series Pivotal Moments in American History and to the literature on the Civil War, McPherson convincingly establishes the Battle of Antietam as the ...

Synopsis of book: In the 1890s, Antietam’s official historian, Ezra Carman, wrote the most detailed and comprehensive study of the Battle of Antietam, with chapters covering the prelude and aftermath ...