A long-forgotten Civil War map has recently been rediscovered, shedding new light on the bloody aftermath of the battle of Antietam. Some 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing following ...

A newly-discovered map of the Battle of Antietam has shown that thousands of fallen soldiers were temporarily buried on the Civil War Battleground in a stunning visualization of the devastation of ...

Simon G. Elliott's Antietam battlefield map was one of about 3,000 antique maps digitized by the New York Public Library between 2015 and 2018. Courtesy of the New York Public Library ...

SHARPSBURG, Md., June 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Without a doubt, the Antietam Battlefield, site of the September 17, 1862, clash that still represe ...

A newly discovered 150-year-old map of the Civil War’s Battle of Antietam shows thousands of graves of Union and Confederate soldiers killed near Sharpsburg, Md., in 1862.

Historian Bradley Gottfried discussed a trio of strategic bridge battles at Antietam in 1862, the single bloodiest day of the Civil War. This was part of the National Museum of the Civil War ...

The battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, remains the bloodiest single day of combat in American military history. Several of my relatives on my father's side were ...

The great historian James McPherson presents his account of Antietam, the savage Civil War battle that made the freeing of the slaves possible. By Katharine Whittemore Published September 17, 2002 ...

Antietam: The Soldiers' Battle John Michael Priest. White Mane Publishing Company, $34.95 (464pp) ISBN 978-0-942597-09-7 ...

Dead of Stonewall Jackson's Brigade lie by rail fence on the Hagerstown pike at Antietam, Maryland, September 1862. Ditch with bodies of soldiers on right wing used as a rifle pit by Confederates ...