In rocky tombs, formed millions of years before Gettysburg, rested the fossilized remains of a riotous wonder of life that ...

Some of the most famous Civil War photographs were taken right on the Antietam Battlefield. Historian Bob Zeller has devoted ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... Lincoln's chance came after the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam in September of 1862. He issued the preliminary Emancipation ...

The USS Antietam was recognized for its more than 37 years of naval service during a decommissioning ceremony in Hawaii.

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... In the larger battles of the war the casualties were staggering: Antietam 22,717; Shiloh 23,746; Spotsylvania ...

This volume narrates the major battles and campaigns of the conflict, conveying the full military experience during the Civil War ... encounters gave the war its central architecture. Chapters explore ...

The battlefield boost for Lincoln came after the federal army had been outwitted, outmaneuvered and outfought in almost every battle of the first year of the Civil War. "Antietam … showed that ...

‘From the moment the guns fell silent,” Stephen Budiansky writes of the deadliest day in American military history—the ...

Some key American institutions at the outbreak of the Civil War were astonishingly primitive and Antietam revealed just how bad they were. Pre-Civil War, for example, most graduates of the U.S ...

It is entirely logical that people are the primary focus in “A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World ... McPherson by all students of the Civil War.” In 1983 Sears wrote ...

The Williamstown Boys in the Civil War," he tells the story of these two brothers who witnessed and made history by fighting in the Peninsula Campaign, then at South Mountain, Antietam ...

Some of the most famous Civil War photographs were taken right on the Antietam Battlefield. Historian Bob Zeller has devoted a quarter-century to collecting photographs from the experience that freed ...