1-272-958 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Map of Antietam, Sharpsburg and Vicinity, Maryland, 1862 (1862-1867) The Battle of Antietam, fought on 17 September 1862, was the first battle of the American Civil War to be fought on Union (northern) soil. It was the bloodiest single day battle in American history, with nearly 23,000 casualties. An engraving from volume II of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.