The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks.
As McPherson shows, by September 1862 the surviva.
McPherson, paints a masterful account of this pivotal battle, the events that led up to it, and its aftermath.
In Crossroads of Freedom , America\'s most eminent Civil War historian, James M.
The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks