Antietam

          On September 17, 1862, Lee's outnumbered army faced the Union forces at Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland. As the two armies clashed, the tide of battle flipped back and forth: "Again and again, hour after hour . . . [a] portion of the field was lost and recovered, until the corn that had grew there had looked like it had been hit by a storm of bloody hail." A total of at least 23,000 were hurt or injured. That is why is it was called the "bloodiest battle of the Civil War."

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