Union Victory. When over 5,000 Union soldiers attacked General Hill’s position, ... The Union victory on Antietam Battlefield came when the Union and President Lincoln needed it the most.

So on Sept. 22, 1862, after a victory at Antietam, he publicly announced a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all enslaved people free in the rebellious states as of Jan. 1, 1863.

The Union victory at Antietam just a few months prior had a significant impact on both the North and the South, but it ultimately set the stage for perhaps the most important executive order ever ...

In September of 1862, after the Union's victory at Antietam, Lincoln issued a preliminary decree stating that, unless the rebellious states returned to the Union by January 1, freedom would be ...

Lee’s victory enabled him to take his army across the Potomac and into western Maryland, where he and McClellan would battle again at Antietam. 24/7 Wall St. The 14 Largest Battles of the Civil War ...

On September 22, 1862, spurred by the Union victory at Antietam where nearly 23,000 men were killed or wounded in just 12 hours repelling Robert E. Lee’s first attempted invasion of the North ...

The victorious heroes of Fair Oaks and Malvern Hill, where the Union cause was baptized in fire and blood, met the battle-tried hosts that carried Gaines' Hill by storm, and twice sowed with our ...

The guns have been silent at Antietam for 150 years, yet the legacy of the great battle that once raged there still reverberates. The battle, fought Sept. 17, 1862, was the Civil War's bloodiest ...

Historians consider Antietam a Union victory because the Union held the field at the end of the battle, but, in reality, Antietam was a costly draw.

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.

Four days after the questionable Union victory at the Battle of Antietam -- a blood bath -- Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all the slaves in the “rebellious states.” ...