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Events on Wednesday 17 September 1862 1
1862Battle of AntietamBloodiest single day in American military historyUnion and Confederate armies clashed near Sharpsburg, Maryland, leaving roughly 23,000 men dead, wounded, or missing in a single day. The battle halted Lee's first invasion of the North and gave Lincoln the opening to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.