Sep 11, 2001, the SECOND bloodiest day in America (Behind the Battle of Antietam, 1863, 25k+ killed)

Fox News ^ | 11 SEP 01 - the SECOND bloodiest day in America | dcbryan1

[DCBryan1]

Fox News was just on live with NYC official, and they expect 10k+ in fatalities.

This exceeds the bloodiest day in American History, the Battle of Antietam in 1863 during the American Civil War in which there were over 25,000 killed and three times as many wounded.

I think the D-Day invasion and Pearl Harbor, Tarawa, and Iwo Jima top off the next deadliest days in America...

This is a horrible day in America...but as always, we will prevail.

[RedwM]

Union- 2010 killed, 9416 wounded, 1043 missing
Confederate- 1890 killed, 9770 wounded, 2304 missing.

[Taft in '52]

Today's casualty figures will probably surpass those of the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam, to you Yankee partisans). It may even rival our losses in the entire Vietnam War.

[RedwM]

It's been a pretty bad day for all of us, Reb.

[BurkeanCyclist]

From National Review Online (emphasis added):

The death toll of September 11 won't be known for some time — it's too early even to have a rough estimate. "I have a sense it's a horrendous number of lives lost," said Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Yet it may be possible to grope toward putting the cost of human life into some kind of context. As the number of dead begins to emerge, consider the number of battle deaths the United States suffered in several of its major wars and battles.

Revolutionary War: 4,435
War of 1812: 2,260
Mexican War: 1,733
Battle of Antietam, the Civil War's bloodiest day: 4,710
Pearl Harbor: 2,403
Korean War: 33,651

[Intolerant in NJ]

Thank you Demorat Senator Frank Church and your liberal Senate colleagues who thought back in the 70's that this world was really a Boy Scout Jamboree, that it was mean of us to spy on any other country, held open Senate hearings on our intelligence gathering capabilities giving away the identities of hundreds of those who had helped our information-gathering efforts and were later assassinated, badly crippled our abilities to persuade possible informants to ever trust us again, and set the Country up for the kind of tragedy we see today...Thank you...

[KC Burke]

Antietam was called the Bloodiest Day because it was a single day battle. Other Battles have been worse, but of multiple days in length.

[2sheep]

This was posted earlier here:

"fox news just reported the body count at this time is 100,000 people

55  Posted on 09/11/2001 10:03:50 PDT by conservative/not stupid"

I realize there is a lot of hysteria going on, however, there is a big difference between 10,000 and 100,000.  It could well be that no one has any idea yet.

[BurkeanCyclist]

My point was the number. There is a significant difference between 25,000 and 4,710.

[lepton]

I would expect that the total will be between 10 and 15 thousand. Lots of people got out (despite the locked doors), but everyone above the fires were trapped, and likely hundreds or rescue workers outside of the buildings were killed. I expect that even some were killed when building 7 went down.

This is gonna have a real effect in addition to the terror effect and the direct deaths. Dean Witter had 20 stories worth of people, records, and equipment in the two towers. The Mercantile exchange, where most of the oil, gas, coal, copper, steel, aluminum, and other major resources are sold is in the WTC. This'll disrupt all of that until the alternate site gets set up...and we can be pretty much assured that that won't be at full capability.