17 6월 Regarding the midway with the the present station we going uphill on trail to consult with Antietam National Battleground
While you are shrouded for the shadows across the towpath, the greater rolling open and you can sunshine-filled fields made it obvious exactly how way too many were slain towards the the fresh new bloodiest day of the fresh Civil War, Sep seventeenth, 1862. Weapons put from the crests mowed down going forward soldiers from the cornfields. (Brand new grizzly world illustrated early in the movie “Glory” is at Antietam.)
Indicating new lunacy off a country split up, the 2 generals who compared one another assaulting to have Burnside Connection was married so you can siblings.
As the successful result of the battle is contended of the historians from both sides of your Mason-Dixon Range, new strategic outcome is obvious. Thanks to the Union's operate right here, President Lincoln watched this new white: shortly thereafter the guy signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It might get another a couple-and-a-half of years of fighting to finish the war.