The battle was over by 4 p.m. that afternoon, and it is considered one of the last major Civil War battles. In his account of the battle, Averell stated that his intent was to leave Echols ...

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.

The bloodiest battle of the Civil War happened in Pennsylvania. During the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army fought Gen. George G. Meade’s Army of the ...

The Civil War was the bloodiest and most destructive conflict in American history. From the beginning of the war in April 1861 to the end in April 1865, over 620,000 people were killed, about ...

CROWN POINT | A century and a half ago, Crown Point's Joseph Sprague stood among the mourners as Col. John Wheeler was buried in a city ceremony that attracted more than 1,000 people. On Tuesday ...

On Sept. 17, 1862, on a battlefield in western Maryland, nearly 23,000 American men and boys were killed, wounded or went missing at the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in the country's history ...