The Battle of
Antietam was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg , Maryland Southern United
States , the bloodiest day in the history of American warfare is
also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg.
The infamous
battle was the first field army–level engagement in the Eastern Theater of the
American Civil War, taking place on Union soil. It was the bloodiest single-day
battle in American history, with a combined tally of 22,717 dead, wounded, or
missing.
Below is a
haunting collection of rare photos from the battle of Antietam
in 1862.
Lonely
Grave, Antietam , Maryland
Lt. Col.
Charles B. Norton at headquarters of Gen. Fitz-John Porter, Antietam, Maryland
Lt. Rufus
King, Lt. Alonzo Cushing, Lt. Evan Thomas and three other artillery officers in
front of tent
Maj. Allan
Pinkerton, Secret Service Department and friends, Antietam, Maryland
Newcomer’s
mill
President
Lincoln with Gen. George B. McClellan and group of officers
Signal
tower overlooking Antietam battlefield, Elk
Mountain , Maryland
Straw
huts erected on Smith’s farm used as a hospital after the battle of Antietam
U.S.
President A. Lincoln, between his bodyguard Major A. Pinkerton (left) and
General J. A. McClernand, visiting the Union camp at Sharpsburg , Maryland
93rd New York Infantry, headquarters Army of the Potomac
A Calvary orderly
Abraham
Lincoln and George B. McClellan in the general’s tent at Antietam, Maryland,
October 3, 1862
Allan
Pinkerton (“E. J. Allen”) of the Secret Service on horseback
Seated:
R. William Moore and Allan Pinkerton. Standing: George H. Bangs, John C.
Babcock, and Augustus K. Littlefield, Antietam ,
Maryland
Battlefield
on the day of battle
Blacksmith
shoeing horses at headquarters, Army of the Potomac
Bodies in front of
the Dunker church
Bodies of
Confederate dead gathered for burial
Bridge on
the Sharpsburg-Boonsboro turnpike
Burying
the dead Confederate soldiers
Captain
J.M. Knap’s Penn of Independent Battery ‘E’
Light Artillery
Col. John
S. Crocker, Lt. Col. Benjamin C. Butler, and adjutant of 93d New York
Volunteers
Col.
Turner G. Morehead, 106th Pennsylvania
Confederate
dead along Hagerstown Pike
Confederate
soldiers as they fell near the Burnside bridge, Antietam, Maryland
Dead of
Stonewall Jackson’s Brigade by rail fence on the Hagerstown
Dead
soldiers on battlefield
Ditch
with bodies of soldiers on right wing used as a rifle pit by Confederates
Federal
buried, Confederate unburied, where they fell
Forge
scene at General McClellan’s headquarters
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