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Article: Costly to South in many ways.(SATURDAY)(THE CIVIL WAR)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2002
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Byline: Ted Alexander, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"Despite the ghastly events of September 11, 2001, another September day 139 years earlier remains the bloodiest single day in America. The 6,300 to 6,500 Union and Confederate soldiers killed and mortally wounded near the Maryland village of Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862, were more than twice the number of fatalities suffered in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001."
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson's opening paragraph of his latest book, "Crossroads of Freedom, Antietam 1862: The Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War," ...