Battle of Antietam

The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil

Location

Sharpsburg, Maryland

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antietam

Combatants

▶ Stonewall Jackson; George Armstrong Custer; Robert Gould Shaw; Joseph Hooker; George Meade;  …

John Bell Hood; Jubal Anderson Early; Oliver O. Howard; George Crook; Thomas Francis Meagher; John Brown Gordon; 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment; Irish Brigade; Myles Keogh; 16th Infantry Regiment; Richard B. Garnett; Fitz John Porter; 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry; James L. Kemper; Ranald S. Mackenzie; Lafayette McLaws; Francis C. Barlow; Edward Needles Hallowell; Daniel Butterfield; William Dorsey Pender; Charles Griffin; Adna Chaffee; Daniel Harvey Hill; Henry Jackson Hunt; Henry Warner Slocum; V Corps; 4th Infantry Regiment; John C. Caldwell; Samuel D. Sturgis; Darius N. Couch; John C. Bates; Edward Ferrero; William T. Wofford; Joseph K. Mansfield; Israel B. Richardson; Robert Hoke; 101st Field Artillery Regiment; George T. Anderson; Thomas L. Rosser; Samuel W. Crawford; Edwin Vose Sumner; John Newton; Clement A. Evans; Harry T. Hays; Alfred Iverson; David Allen Russell; Isaac P. Rodman; Paul Jones Semmes; Thomas Devin; Lawrence O'Bryan Branch; 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment; Henry Baxter; Zebulon York; George B. Anderson; George Yates; Birkett D. Fry; Emmet Crawford; George W. Getty; Edward E. Cross; Orlando B. Willcox; Charles Russell Lowell; John Rogers Cooke; William R. Cox; Charles S. Wainwright; Thomas Drayton; Laurence S. Baker; Alexander Lawton; 11th Pennsylvania Infantry; Albion P. Howe; John G. B. Adams; Roswell S. Ripley; Rush Hawkins; Williams Carter Wickham; William S. Tilton; 7th Ohio Infantry; 69th Pennsylvania Infantry; Charles Sawyer Russell; 6th Georgia Volunteer Infantry; Napoleon J.T. Dana; Thomas W. Hyde; Edward Winslow Hinks; D. Wyatt Aiken; William Montrose Graham, Jr.; Benjamin C. Christ; Cullen A. Battle; William E. Starke; Charles C. Tew; Henry Livermore Abbott; George Lafayette Beal; 1st West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment; Thomas O. Seaver; Abner Monroe Perrin; Leroy Augustus Stafford; 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment; Abram S. Piatt; Simon Goodell Griffin; John I. Curtin; 17th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 16th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery; 23rd Ohio Infantry; 3rd Arkansas Infantry; 1st Ohio Battery; First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia; 44th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 63rd New York Infantry; 32nd Regiment of New York Volunteers; 31st New York Infantry; 30th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 28th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 23rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 22nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 10th New York Infantry; 4th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment; George Morton Randall; 1st New Hampshire Light Battery; 27th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 25th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment; Jacob B. Sweitzer; 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment; Battery G, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery; Battery D, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery; Battery C, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery; Battery B, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery; Battery A, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery; 71st Pennsylvania Infantry; 9th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry; 6th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry; 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry; 6th Maine Battery; Peter H. Allabach; XII Corps; Frank A. Haskell; 3rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 4th Maine Battery; 10th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 88th New York Infantry; 6th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 46th North Carolina Infantry Regiment; Frederick Füger; John Johnson; George D. Ruggles; 134th Pennsylvania Infantry; 9th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 33rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry; Cleveland Winslow; 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry; 7th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 30th Virginia Infantry; 61st Virginia Infantry; 30th Ohio Infantry; 28th Ohio Infantry; 2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry; Pee Dee Light Artillery; Hiram Burnham; 22nd Virginia Infantry Battalion; William MacRae; Henry J. Stainrook; Hector Tyndale; George P. Foster; Adolph Proskauer; James H. Lane; Edward Harland; Edward L. Thomas; Carr B. White; Amasa Tracy; 2nd Maryland Artillery, CSA; 26th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 36th Ohio Infantry; Robert D. Lilley; John Moore; Henry C. Merriam; Simmonds' Battery Kentucky Light Artillery; 46th Pennsylvania Infantry; Frederick Anderson; 13th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment; 70th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry; 106th Pennsylvania Infantry; 9th Regiment Alabama Infantry; 14th Regiment Alabama Infantry; 8th Regiment Alabama Infantry; 4th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment; John Green

Coordinates

39°28'23.52"N, 39°28'23"N, 77°44'40.92"W

Commander

Robert E. Lee, George B. McClellan, Robert Gould Shaw

Part of

the American Civil War

Class

military conflict, battle, behavioral event, event

Theme of

Crossroads of freedom

Related Websites

▶ http://antietam.aotw.org, http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam.html, http://civilwartalk.com/Resource_Center/General_Resources/Military_Letters_and_Reports/report-of-george-b-mcclellan-on-the-battle-of-antietamseptember-29-1862-a168.html, http://www.historynet.com/wars_conflicts/american_civil_war/3785852.html, http://www.brotherswar.com/Antietam-Sharpsburg.htm,  …

http://www.whilbr.org/HeraldofFreedom/index.aspx, http://www.whilbr.org/antietamNationalCemetery/index.aspx, http://www.whilbr.org/confederateSoldiers/index.aspx, http://www.old-picture.com/antietam-index-001.htm, http://www.cg54.navy.mil, http://aotw.org, http://www.nps.gov/anti, http://www.antietamconflict.com, http://www.historyanimated.com/Antietamh.html, http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/StaffRide/Antietam/Contents.htm

Date

1862, September 17th 1862

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Rare Terms

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