Fought in Sharpsburg, Maryland, at Antietam Creek, the Battle of Antietam or the Battle of Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history with 22,717 soldiers killed, wounded, or missing after 14 hours of fighting.…
The Battle of Ball’s Bluff on October 21, 1861, started as a rather typical amphibious crossing of the Potomac River by the Union Army into Virginia to attack the Confederates. Unfortunately, the Union soldiers had to traverse the river in several…
The Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia on June 9, 1863, was the largest cavalry engagement to take place on the North American continent and could be called the first engagement of the Battle of Gettysburg. General Robert E. Lee decided to invade…
The first major battle of the Civil War was fought on July 21, 1861, at the Battle of Bull Run, or First Manassas as the South preferred to call it. Northern picnickers expecting to see the Southern army get a quick thrashing came from nearby…