Budiansky focuses on the Battle of Antietam, which took place during the American Civil War in 1862 and left some 3,600 soldiers killed and 16,000 wounded. A military draw, it became a political ...

More than 20,000 others on both sides died, were injured or went missing elsewhere on the battlefield that day, making the Battle of Antietam the bloodiest single-day battle in American history. On a ...

At Antietam and Gettysburg, the Union successfully repelled Confederate invasions of the North. Although the Union had been ...