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On September 17, 1862, in the Maryland village of Sharpsburg, in the fields between Antietam Creek and the Potomac River, forces of the Union Army defeated Confederate troops under General Robert E. Lee. By nightfall, some five thousand men were dead. Of nearly twenty thousand wounded, one in ten would soon succumb. On that day, the bloodiest in the nation's history, more Americans were killed than in all the other wars fought by the United States between the Continental victory at Yorktown, in 1781, and the landing of the American Expeditionary Force in France, in 1917. By the morning of September 18th, Antietam was a vision of hell. As James M. McPherson writes in ...