BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

DATE & LOCATION

• September 17, 1862
• Took place near Antietam Creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland

COMMANDING OFFICERS

• For the Confederacy was General Robert E. Lee
• For the Union was Major General George B. McClellan

INTERESTING STORY

• I had just got myself pretty comfortable when a bomb burst over me and completely deafened me. I felt a blow on my right shoulder and my jacket was covered with white stuff. I felt mechanically whether I still had my arm and thank God it was still whole. At the same time I felt something damp on my face; I wiped it off. It was bloody. Now I first saw that the man next to me, Kessler, lacked the upper part of his head, and almost all his brains had gone into the face of the man next to him, Merkel, so that he could scarcely see.
• Christoph Niederer, 20th New York Infantry, 6th Corps Civil War Misc. Collection, USAMHI

STATISTICS

• Union
• Deaths: 2,100
• Wounded: 9,550
• Missing/Captured: 750
• Confederates
• Deaths: 1,550
• Wounded: 7,750
• Missing/Captured: 1,020

BATTLE DESCRPITON

• Bloodiest battle of Civil War
• Fought by Antietam Creek

WINNER

• Neither side really won, but the Union claimed victory