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Caption: Antietam
Caption: Antietam
National Battlefield _______ Photos by Bill Putnam
Caption: The bloodiest battle of the American Civil War was fought on these fields.
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Caption: Over 23,000 soldiers from the Union Army and Confederate army were killed, wounded or went missing during Gen. Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the Union.
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Caption: Burnside Bridge.
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Caption: Approximately 25 percent of the Union army and 31 percent of the Confederate army were casualties.
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Caption: The Sunken Road.
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Caption: Some soldiers in the Union army had only enlisted two weeks before the battle.
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Caption: The battle ended a draw. But the Union army had bloodied the Confederates and forced them to withdraw back to Virginia.
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Caption: The Cornfield.
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Caption: Poffenberger Farm.
Caption: Seeing the opportunity the battle's aftermath gave him with the Confederate invasion blunted, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Caption: Photos by Bill Putnam
Copyright Bill Putnam 2014