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Union
Casualties: 12,401
Confederate Casualties:
10,318
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Statistical Source: EACW
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The Battle of Antietam: The bloodiest single day of
the war began just outside Sharpsburg early on the morning
of September 17, 1862, when Union troops under General
Joseph Hooker attacked the Confederates near the
Dunker church. Later, the fighting would move to the
Sunken Road, and then to a bridge over Antietam Creek,
across which troops under General
Ambrose Burnside managed to fight their way only
to be withdrawn again when rebel reinforcements arrived
at the end of the day.
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