Although little changed for the South, the North saw the narrow victory as very substantial due to US President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, given after the Battle of Antietam in ...

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 ...