more than 23,000 young men of the North and South fell dead or wounded in the Civil War's Battle of Antietam. No one day of U.S. military combat before or since has taken such a bloody toll.

Here, the Civil War’s Battle of Antietam exploded in fury ... forever after called Bloody Lane, littered with what one Union soldier called a “ghastly flooring” of the dead.

Before the day would end it would be more aptly renamed Bloody Lane. Running almost ... Federals bottled up on the east side of the Antietam Creek. At the bridge the copper-colored, swift-flowing ...

The Battle of Antietam remains the bloodiest single day ... south and headed toward what was called the Sunken Road. The Bloody Lane The Sunken Road was an old country farm lane worn down by ...

A misty rain shrouded Antietam Creek as Pvt ... lining the bottom of the declivity that would be known thereafter as Bloody Lane. The surviving Rebels scrambled out of the pit and Federals ...

The bridge spanning Antietam Creek was simply known as the “lower bridge” when it was the site of the fighting Sept. 17, 1862, when more than 22,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died.

That excuse would more than have justified ROSECRANS in abandoning the field and the victory to BRAGG after the first day's bloody repulse ... to the east side of Antietam Creek, and some of ...