Beginning in the early morning of September 17, 1862, Civil War Confederate and Union troops clash near Antietam Creek, Md., On the bloodiest day in US military history.

The Battle of Antietam marked the culmination of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s first invasion of the Northern States. Guiding his Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River in early September 1862, the Grand General boldly divided his men, sending half of them, under the command of General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, to capture the garrison of the ‘Union at Harper’s Ferry.

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