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Antietam National Battlefield Sharpsburg Maryland
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Number of men engaged
Union 75-87,000
Confederate 45-51,000
Casualties Union
Killed 2,100
Wounded 9,550
Missing/Captured 750
Total 12,400
Casualties Confederate
Killed 1,550
Wounded 7,750
Missing/Captured 1,020
Total 10,320
Eight Generals were killed or mortally wounded during the Maryland campaign.
Union
Maj.Gen. Joseph K. Mansfield
Brig.Gen. Isaac P. Rodmen
Maj.Gen. Israel B. Richardson
Maj.Gen. Jesse L. Reno
Confederate
Brig.Gen. William B. Starke
Gen.Lawrence O'B Branch
Brig.Gen. George B. Anderson
Brig.Gen. Samuel Garland
Gen's Garland and Reno were mortally wounded at the battle of South Mountain.
There are ninety six monuments and over three hundred interruptive iron tablets at Antietam.
Two future Presidents participated in the Maryland campaign an members of the 23rd. Ohio Infty.
Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley.
Antietam facts
Books
Landscape Turned Red
By Stephen W. Sears
The Gleam of Bayonets
By James V. Murfin
Antietam
The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloodyiest Day
By William A. Frassanito
She breathes! she burns! she'll come! she'll come! Maryland My Maryland....James R. Randall
The Dunker Church
Built in 1851 by the local German Baptist Brethren The meeting house survived the battle, fell into disrepair and was destroyed by a storm in 1921 The National Park Service rebuilt the church in the 1960s using many of the original bricks.
Photographs by Geographic Location
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