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Antietam photos offered first honest view of war
Baltimore Sun ^
| September 16, 2001
| Michael Hill
Posted on 09/16/2001 4:23:33 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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SHARPSBURG - The last time such destruction was seen on these shores, it happened in places like this, set amid serene farms and rolling hills where Americans fought each other and died.
The battle of Antietam nearly devastated the two armies that fought it and forever changed the community that was its accidental host. And photography, then an emerging medium, dramatically increased its impact on the country, in a way not altogether different from today's images of American lives lost to terrorism.
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I was always under the impression that 20,000+ (23,000 - I think) died at Antietam. This author says 4,000 with an addional 19,000 wounded or missing.
To: Seeking the truth
The Confederate forces, variously estimated at between 40,000 and 60,000, had lost between 9,000 and 10,000 killed and wounded; McClellan's force of from 70,000 to 90,000 (a portion of whom were not actively engaged) lost about 12,000.-- Freeman Hansford Hart, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1966.
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09/16/2001 5:13:59 AM PDT
by
dighton
To: Seeking the truth
There were 23,000 casualties, which means dead, wounded and missing.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
"Bloody Lane" at Sharpsburg (Antietam) as it appears today...
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posted on
09/16/2001 5:57:22 AM PDT
by
fagin62
To: fagin62 bump
Bump!
To: fagin62
I've walked down it. A very moving and eerie experience.
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09/16/2001 2:45:58 PM PDT
by
driftless
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