"Of all the days on all the fields where American soldiers
have fought, the most terrible by almost any measure was
September 17, 1862. The battle waged on that date, close
by Antietam Creek at Sharpsburg in western Maryland, took
a human toll never exceeded on any other single day in the
nation's history. So intense and sustained was the
violence, a man recalled, that for a moment in his mind's
eye the very landscape around him turned red."
Stephen W. Sears,
Landscape Turned Red
have fought, the most terrible by almost any measure was
September 17, 1862. The battle waged on that date, close
by Antietam Creek at Sharpsburg in western Maryland, took
a human toll never exceeded on any other single day in the
nation's history. So intense and sustained was the
violence, a man recalled, that for a moment in his mind's
eye the very landscape around him turned red."
Stephen W. Sears,
Landscape Turned Red
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