Antietam National Battlefield, located in Sharpsburg, Md., is the site of the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history. | Rob Carr/AP Photo By Austin Wright 08/19/2017 07:46 AM EDT ...

Robert E. Lee Statue Sparks New Antietam Battle Vince Pearson reports on the latest battle for Antietam. The Civil War battlefield is at the center of a debate over whether a man who owns property ...

Kevin Pawlak, author of [Shepherdstown in the Civil War: One Vast Confederate Hospital], talked about General Robert E. Lee's defensive strategy during the Battle of Antietam. This talk was a part ...

The bronze statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee has stood on a grassy knoll above the Antietam battlefield for several months. But furor over the statue, which some say is historically inaccurate, has yet … ...

To coincide with the Battle of Antietam's 155th anniversary, a bill has been introduced in Congress calling for a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to be removed from the battlefield.

The statue has not budged. And perhaps it never will. But it’s also just as likely that the likeness of Civil War Gen. Robert E. Lee that stands at Antietam National Battlefield will someday ...

On Sept. 17, 1862, Gen. George B. McClellan stopped Gen. Robert E. Lee’s first Confederate invasion of the North at the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of warfare in American history. This ...

The Robert E. Lee statue at Antietam National Battlefield was vandalized overnight, the National Park Service said Friday.A preservation crew will remove the graffiti. "We acknowledge that this ...

For when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee issued his battle plan and had it distributed to his officers, one general carelessly wrapped his copy around several cigars, which he later lost.

To gain crucial international credibility, the Confederates under General Robert E. Lee invaded Maryland, a Union state, and a battle ensued beside a small creek named Antietam.

Robert Mitchell Menuet spoke proudly of Barton Mitchell, his ancestor who served alongside John Bloss in the 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry and suffered a life-shortening wound at Antietam ...

But Lee wanted to keep up the momentum achieved in the Second Battle of Manassas on August 29-30. ... USAMHI Bibliography: Robert E. Lee. Antietam National Battlefield. RELATED STORIES.