ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY | |
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On September 17, 1862, Confederate and Union troops in the Civil War clash in the Battle of Antietam, which is named after a Maryland creek near the battlefield. The battle marked the end of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s first invasion of the North. The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single day in American military history. Nearly one quarter, 23,000 out of 100,000 total combatants, were casualties, including over 3,600 dead. |
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