The Battle of Antietam (/ æ n ˈ t iː t əm / an-TEE-təm), also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac ...

The Battle of Antietam begins at dawn when Hooker’s Union corps mounts a powerful assault on Lee’s left flank. Repeated Union attacks and equally vicious Confederate counterattacks sweep back and forth across Miller’s cornfield and the West Woods.

2009年10月27日 · The Battle of Antietam was a pivotal, bloody Civil War skirmish on September 17, 1862, that halted Confederate momentum on the battlefield and abroad.

Battle of Antietam, (September 17, 1862), in the American Civil War (1861–65), a decisive engagement that halted the Confederate invasion of Maryland, an advance that was regarded as one of the greatest Confederate threats to Washington, D.C.

2019年7月11日 · The Battle of Antietam pitted Union General George McClellan's Army of the Potomac against General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. The Maryland Campaign was Lee's first attempt to take the war North and it was McClellan who was tasked by President Abraham Lincoln with stopping him.

2024年12月8日 · 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing after twelve hours of savage combat on September 17, 1862. The Battle of Antietam ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's first invasion into the North and led Abraham Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.

On September 17, Lee met General McClellan in the bloodiest single day of fighting in the war and in American history. Union casualties at Antietam were 12,400, including 2,100 killed; Southern casualties were 10,320, including 1,550 killed. While the outcome was a stalemate, Lee retreated to Virginia.

2024年5月26日 · On the morning of September 17, the two armies collided near the town of Sharpsburg in a series of piecemeal attacks and counterattacks. The battle opened at dawn with a Union assault on the Confederate left flank, near a 40-acre cornfield.

2009年11月24日 · Beginning early on the morning of September 17, 1862, Confederate and Union troops in the Civil War clash near Maryland’s Antietam Creek in the bloodiest single day in American military...

While the Battle of Antietam is considered a tactical draw, Abraham Lincoln claimed a strategic victory. This hard-fought battle, which drove Lee’s forces from Maryland, gave Lincoln the “win” that he needed to deliver the Emancipation Proclamation — a document that would forever change the course of the Civil War.