Features battle highlights and involvement from the 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Antietam.

Features photos about this September 17, 1862 battle when Union and Confederate Forces met along a little creek known as the Antietam.

Provides commanders, overview, and detailed description of the three day battle.

Contains photographs, letters, documents, diaries, and analysis.

Includes an animated map that shows the movements of the armies, photographs, commanders at Antietam and order of the battle.

Historical treatment of the September 1862 battle near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Sections on the people and events of Sept 17th, plus special feature articles, references, and analysis.

The Battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg) on September 17, 1862, climaxed the first of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's two attempts to carry the war into the North. And when the fighting ended, the course of the American Civil War had been greatly altered.

General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North culminated with the Battle of Antietam, in Maryland (or Sharpsburg, as the South called it). The battle on September 17, 1862 was the bloodiest single day in American History, with 23,000 soldiers killed or wounded in 12 hours of fighting.

A study of the Battle of Antietam from Military History Online.

"There was no artillery as such at this point upon either side, and not a rifle was discharged. The stillness was literally oppressive," wrote J.B.Gordon of the Confederate Army in 1862. Includes background of Gordon's wife, Fanny Haralson of Georgia, and letters that he wrote to her.