. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Its s^. ■ f^t^ifim^.^jid THE CHURCH WHERE THE VETERANARMIES CLASHED The shot-holes in the Httle Dunker church of Antietaiii, and thedead in Bine and Gray as they lay after tlie battle-smoke hadlifted, mark the center of the bloodiest single days fightint; inthe Civil War. Here the grand armies of the North and Southfaced one another on September 17, 186-2. At sunrise the actionbegan; by 4 oclock in the afternoon it was over, and tlic dead andwounded numbered twenty-th
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Its s^. ■ f^t^ifim^.^jid THE CHURCH WHERE THE VETERANARMIES CLASHED The shot-holes in the Httle Dunker church of Antietaiii, and thedead in Bine and Gray as they lay after tlie battle-smoke hadlifted, mark the center of the bloodiest single days fightint; inthe Civil War. Here the grand armies of the North and Southfaced one another on September 17, 186-2. At sunrise the actionbegan; by 4 oclock in the afternoon it was over, and tlic dead andwounded numbered twenty-three tliousand five hundred. Theprejjonderance of the army under McClellan, with his eighty-seven thousand men, was offset by the presence of three greatConfederate leaders whose names had already rung round llieworld—Lee, Jackson, and Longstreet—witii numbers less than halfthose opposed to them. On the 18th the armies lay exhausted;and on the 19th Lee abandoned his invasion of the North.
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