Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andrew Banasik wants to repaint his new office from a peachy-orange color to white. But personalizing the office is low on his ...

“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 ...

Contributing significantly to Oxford's new academic series Pivotal Moments in American History and to the literature on the Civil War, McPherson convincingly establishes the Battle of Antietam as the ...

A metal-detecting trip near Antietam started with flat buttons, bullets, and iron from an old Civil War camp. But the ...

What a regiment of inexperienced Indiana soldiers saw at Antietam. By Nicole Etcheson More Americans died on Sept. 17, 1862, at the Battle of Antietam, than any other day in history. By Rick Beard A ...

For the better part of 160 years, military historians have been poring over the movements of Union and Confederate soldiers through southern Washington County in the waning days of the summer of 1862 ...

Budiansky focuses on the Battle of Antietam, which took place during the American Civil War in 1862 and left some 3,600 soldiers killed and 16,000 wounded. A military draw, it became a political ...

SHARPSBURG, Md., SEPT. 17 -- Here, too, anguished families came when the day was over, searching for missing loved ones. From field hospital to field hospital, they went: Have you seen my son? they ...

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.

ALL RIGHT, DALENCIA THANK YOU. WELL, TODAY MARKS THE 161ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM, WHICH TOOK PLACE RIGHT HERE IN MARYLAND AND REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR.

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