After pursuing Confederate General Robert E. Lee into Maryland, Union Army Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan launched attacks against Lee's army, in defensive positions behind Antietam Creek.
The Battle of Antietam, the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil, was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties.
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