Colorized by me: Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand; 1862. 
Part of the Maryland Campaign, the Battle of Antietam was the first field army–level engagement in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War to take place on Union soil.
It was the bloodiest day in American history, with a combined tally of 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing.
It was the bloodiest day in American history, with a combined tally of 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing.
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"(...) although the battle was tactically inconclusive, the Confederate troops had withdrawn first from the battlefield and abandoned their invasion, making it a Union strategic victory.
It was enough of a victory to give Lincoln the confidence to announce his Emancipation Proclamation, which, by freeing more than 3.5 million slaves in the Confederate states, began the process of emancipation of all remaining persons considered, legally, as slaves...
... within the United States."
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