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.
JBSA-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — The Borden Institute, an agency of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Medical Center of Excellence, officially released Combat Readiness Through Medicine at ...
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 ...
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 ...
It would be easy to assume that all the historically significant details about the 1862 Battle of Antietam are well-known and frequently shared with the public by historians. After all, the battle is ...
“The 6,300 to 6,500 Union and Confederate soldiers killed and mortally wounded near the Maryland village of Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862, were more than twice the number of fatalities suffered in ...
Editor’s Note: Last weekend, William Vandall made the trip to Maryland to commemorate the Battle of Antietam. This is an accounting of his visit. Over the weekend, a historic moment passed 160 years ...
It was the bloodiest day of America's Civil War and remains the bloodiest one-day battle in American history. This week (Sept. 17) in 1862, some 24,000 soldiers died or were wounded in the clash ...
The bloodiest day in American history occurred 150 years ago, on Sept. 17, 1862, at the Battle of Antietam (Union name) or Sharpsburg (Confederate name). More Americans died on this single day than ...
Just after dusk on Saturday at Antietam National Battlefield, the rolling fields of the park below will appear to reflect the sky above as 23,110 candles, spread across hundreds of acres of the ...
“From the moment the guns fell silent,” Stephen Budiansky writes of the deadliest day in American military history—the furious fighting between Union and Confederate forces at the Battle of Antietam ...