The fighting that killed or wounded 21,000 Americans in the rolling hills of western Maryland was over in about 12 grisly hours. But a century and a half after the bloodiest day in American military ...

Monday marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's Battle of Antietam, one of the bloodiest battles of any war. At the battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md., some of those reenacting the battle have ...

SHARPSBURG, Md. -- The Civil War Battle of Antietam was so big, they're re-enacting it twice. And nearly 8,000 re-enactors had to make a choice: strictly regimented realism or bombastic spectacle? The ...

“The 6,300 to 6,500 Union and Confederate soldiers killed and mortally wounded near the Maryland village of Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862, were more than twice the number of fatalities suffered in ...

One student marveled at the size of the jawbreaker, a mainstay of candy stores and Civil War soldiers' rations bags alike. “Can I eat it?” the student asked the man dressed as a Confederate soldier.

A Milford man has written a historical novel about what's considered the bloodiest fight in American history, the Battle of Antietam in the Civil War. "None But Heroes" is the first book released by ...

SHARPSBURG — When Gary Rohrer got the call on Feb. 11, 2012, that a gentleman from Calgary in Alberta, Canada, wanted a tour of Antietam National Battlefield, he jumped at the opportunity. The cold ...

The Battle of Antietam remains the bloodiest single day of fighting in American military history. On this day in 1862, nearly 23,000 of the 131,000 Union and Confederate soldiers assembled in ...

The tattered map shows where the bodies of 300 Confederates were buried, row on row just outside a sunken farm lane called Hog Trough Road where they fought that day. A few yards away, the graves of ...