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st18 Dunker Church - Antietam National Battlefield

Site of the single bloodiest day in American history, with 23,000 casualties (killed, wounded and missing) on September 17, 1862. The Battle of Antietam ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia’s first invasion into the North and led to Abraham Lincoln’s issuance of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.

 

 

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Uploaded on July 11, 2011
Taken in October 1998