The Battle of Antietam
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Search History Extra to listen now and get closer to the past. On the seventeenth of september eighteen sixty two, over a hundred and ten thousand soldiers gathered near Antietam Creek, amidst the cornfields and rolling hills of Maryland, some seventy five miles northwest of Washington, DC. Over a year into the American Civil War, the forces of the Union Army had mustered to confront the rebel Confederate Army. The war had begun when a group of southern states had seceded from the USA. over the issues of slavery and states rights, forming a new confederacy instead.
President Abraham Lincoln was committed to maintaining the Union. But in the first year of the conflict the Confederates had been surprisingly successful, despite fewer numbers and fewer resources. The Battle of Antietam lasted just one day. But it became notorious later as the single bloodiest day in the entire conflict, with around twenty two thousand casualties, including heavy loss of life on both sides. But it was also the day that convinced President Lincoln
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