Antietam Battlefield (Battle of Antietam)

Date: September 17th, 1862

Outcome: Union Victory

Confederate Casualties: 10,337

Union Casualties: 12,410

Private Amos B. Hawley of the 5th Vermont Infantry:

"The battle was fierce and terrible; the air seemed full of whizzing bullets, and the ground was strewn with the fallen. Yet, amidst the smoke and carnage, we stood firm, knowing that the fate of the nation hung in the balance."