Often referred to as “the bloodiest single day battle in U.S. history,” the Battle of Antietam was also the first major engagement of the Civil War to take place north of the Mason-Dixon. From ...

Some of the deadliest days in American military history came during battles that permanently changed the United States and its armed forces. Events like the Battle of Antietam and the Attack on Pearl ...

Bob Whisonant is a Civil War buff with a peculiar way of looking at the Civil War. If you ask him to talk about, say, the Battle of Antietam, he might begin, “Well, it all started 500 million years ...