Many battles preceded and followed, but none would be so costly on both sides as Antietam. No more would citizen soldiers populate both armies. Rather, they would now be known as professional ...

Budiansky focuses on the Battle of Antietam, which took place during the American Civil War in 1862 and left some 3,600 soldiers killed and 16,000 wounded. A military draw, it became a political ...

President Jimmy Carter's visits to Washington County included worshipping in Hagerstown, touring Antietam National ...

Harsh then goes into tremendous detail as to why the wheels eventually came off the campaign in the nearly two weeks before Antietam. He begins with an extended examination of how large Lee s army ...

He opened the fighting at the Battle of Antietam, where he was wounded and ... After the disastrous Union campaign at Fredericksburg, Hooker was given command of the Union army, replacing Burnside.

He conducted a successful campaign along the Carolina coast ... have been overshadowed by his colossal failures. At Antietam, Burnside forced his troops into repeated assaults across a narrow ...

Carter made a campaign stop here, at Longmeadow Shopping Center in Hagerstown's North End, according to Herald-Mail archives. While president, Carter's visits also included Antietam National ...