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The Battle of Antietam (/ æ n ˈ t iː t əm / an-TEE-təm), also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek.
The third-highest single-day toll was the Battle of Antietam, with 2,108 dead. The deadliest single-day battle in American history , if all engaged armies are considered, is the Battle of Antietam with 3,675 killed, including both United States and Confederate soldiers (total casualties for both sides were 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing Union ...
Starke was shot three times and died within an hour. He was one of six generals killed or mortally wounded at Antietam. [8] His body was buried in the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, next to his son who had been killed three and a half months earlier at the Battle of Seven Pines. [1] [9]
Casualties Casualties as % of Strength Gettysburg: Gettysburg campaign: July 1 –3, 1863 ... Antietam (Sharpsburg) Maryland campaign: September 17, 1862: Sharpsburg ...
Charles Courtenay Tew (October 17, 1827 – September 17, 1862) was a colonel in the Confederate States Army and was killed in action at the Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War. Early life
Rodman (leaning against tree) with Col. Ambrose E. Burnside and officers of the 1st Rhode Island Isaac Peace Rodman (August 18, 1822 – September 30, 1862) was a Rhode Island banker, politician, and a Union Army brigadier general in the American Civil War, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
On June 19, 1861, he was commissioned captain of Company E, 13th Georgia. He was promoted to Lt. Colonel July 8, 1861, and to full Colonel February 1, 1862. Douglass was killed at the battle of Antietam while commanding Lawton's brigade south of the section of the battle known as the Cornfield on September 17, 1862.
The 1st Minnesota was one of the last regiments to leave the battlefield and suffered one of the highest number of casualties of any northern regiment: 49 killed, 107 wounded and 34 missing. [4] During the 1st Minnesota Infantry's initiation to combat, it was noted for honourable conduct by Colonel Franklin.