Battle of Antietam

Th Army of the Potomac under George McClellan assulted Robert E. Lee's forces. McClellan's army was pushed back again. This was the single bloodiest day in American history and the retreat of the Confederates gave President Lincoln the victory he needed before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.

This picture is of the dead Confederat soldiers before the Dunker Church on the Antietam Battlefield.

This is a picture showing the thousands of dead sodiers in Bloody Lane at Antietam.

This photo captures President Lincoln, George McClellan, and other Union officers near the Stephen P. Grove farm.