The battle happened at a crucial time during ... Lee ordered his forces to move to Sharpsburg at a strategically selected location along Antietam Creek. On September 16th, 1862, Union forces ...

We’d spent the morning at Harper’s Ferry, and next up was Antietam, the site of the bloodiest one-day battle of the American ... car at the Corn Field. This location is where some of the ...

Steven Cowie opens When Hell Came to Sharpsburg by describing the Battle of Antietam (Sept. 19, 1862), with its over 23,000 men killed, wounded, or captured, with distinctive attention given to the ...