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The Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) is remembered as the bloodiest single day of combat during the American Civil War.

It is arguably a Union victory, albeit by the slimmest of margins. (The Army of Northern Virginia retreated from the field and back across the Potomac River.) It was enough for Abraham Lincoln to announce his Emancipation Proclamation, which was intended to free the slaves held in the areas of rebellion.

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