Bloodiest Day In American History

[douggie]

Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg, MD), September 17th, 1862. The battle left 23,000 men killed or wounded in the fields, woods and dirt roads, and it changed the course of the Civil War. It was also the first view of photographs taken by Alexander Gardner showing the dead where they fell that fateful day.

 

[outofyourmind]

More Pictures coming in now.
Stand By.....

 

[ChiSoxFan]

Visited the battlefield when I was younger. Walking across Burnside Bridge was pretty cool.

 

[Hu War Yu]

Talk about a slaughter.

The vast majority of those boys on either side had more guts than anybody living today in america. To stand shoulder to shoulder with your unit, a hundred yards away from an enemy volley and cannons, knowing the entire lot of you could be mowed down any second?

 

[PeoplesChicken]

As macabe as it sounds, I love stuyding Gardner and Brady's photographs from the war

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg, MD), September 17th, 1862. The battle left 23,000 men killed or wounded in the fields, woods and dirt roads, and it changed the course of the Civil War. It was also the first view of photographs taken by Alexander Gardner showing the dead where they fell that fateful day.

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[Hang_On_Sloopy08]

Talk about a slaughter.

The vast majority of those boys on either side had more guts than anybody living today in america. To stand shoulder to shoulder with your unit, a hundred yards away from an enemy volley and cannons, knowing the entire lot of you could be mowed down any second?

Was just thinking that. If I saw that much carnage my ass woulda been running in the other direction with shit and piss running down my legs.

 

[batchaps4me]

Was just thinking that. If I saw that much carnage my ass woulda been running in the other direction with shit and piss running down my legs.

That's why I went on submarines ... We Hide With Pride.

 

[Hu War Yu]

Was just thinking that. If I saw that much carnage my ass woulda been running in the other direction with shit and piss running down my legs.

I don't know if I could have done it. And so many of those rebel boys were entirely untrained. I don't know what their officers must have told them before a fight.

I remember from Ken Burns' Civil War series that one soldier wrote an entry in his diary "today I was killed at..." can't recall if it was Antietam or not, but it's still chilling. To know beforehand how bad it's going to be that you wrote it in your diary?

 

[jjc2009]

“Crab cakes, football and butchering Americans, that’s what Maryland does!”