what was the point of the antietam battle
Fought along Antietam Creek, at Sharpsburg, Maryland, this battle brought about Americaâs bloodiest day, the product of Confederate audacity and Union command failure.
On this morning 150 years ago, Union and Confederate troops clashed at the crossroads town of Sharpsburg, Md. The Battle of Antietam remains the bloodiest single day in American history. The battle left 23,000 men killed or wounded in the fields, woods and dirt roads, and it changed the course of the Civil War.