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 the ...

The fighting that killed or wounded 21,000 Americans in the rolling hills of western Maryland was over in about 12 grisly hours. But a century and a half after the bloodiest day in American military ...

“The 6,300 to 6,500 Union and Confederate soldiers killed and mortally wounded near the Maryland village of Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862, were more than twice the number of fatalities suffered in ...

SHARPSBURG, Md. -- The Civil War Battle of Antietam was so big, they're re-enacting it twice. And nearly 8,000 re-enactors had to make a choice: strictly regimented realism or bombastic spectacle? The ...

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Monday marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's Battle of Antietam, one of the bloodiest battles of any war. At the battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md., some of those reenacting the battle have ...

One student marveled at the size of the jawbreaker, a mainstay of candy stores and Civil War soldiers' rations bags alike. “Can I eat it?” the student asked the man dressed as a Confederate soldier.

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 at ...

SHARPSBURG — When Gary Rohrer got the call on Feb. 11, 2012, that a gentleman from Calgary in Alberta, Canada, wanted a tour of Antietam National Battlefield, he jumped at the opportunity. The cold ...