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Maryland Campaign
Battle of Antietam

Confederate Commander

Gen. Robert E. Lee

Forces Engaged: 38,000

Killed: 1,567

Wounded: 7,752

Captured or Missing: 1,018

Total Casualties: 10,316

Confederate Officers

Lieut.Gen. James Longstreet

Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart

Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws

Maj. Gen. David R. Jones

Maj. Gen. Ambrose P. Hill

Brig. Gen. James H. Lane

Brig. Gen. Samuel McGowan

Brig. Gen. James J. Archer

Brig. Gen. William D. Pender

Brig. Gen. Edward L. Thomas

Brig. Gen. Robert Toombs

Brig. Gen. Richard B. Garnett

Brig. Gen. Robert Ransom, Jr.

Brig. Gen. John B. Hood

Brig. Gen. Nathan S. Evans

Brig. Gen. Jubal A. Early

Brig. Gen. Harry T. Hays

Brig. Gen. John S. Walker

Brig. Gen. J. B. Kershaw

Brig. Gen. Howell Cobb

Brig. Gen. Paul J. Semmes

Brig. Gen. William Barksdale

Brig. Gen. Wade Hampton

Brig. Gen. Beverly H. Robertson

Brig. Gen. William N. Pendleton

Brig. Gen. John R. Jones

Maj. Gen. Daniel H. Hill

Brig. Gen. Roswell S. Ripley

Brig. Gen. R. E. Rodes

Confederate Order of Battle

Confederate Official Records

September 17, 1862

Washington County,

near Sharpsburg, Maryland

Also Called Battle of Sharpsburg

Tactically Inconclusive

Union Strategic Victory

allowing the announcement of

Emancipation Proclamation

This was the bloodiest day of the war and in American History.

Union Commander

Gen. George B. McClellan

Forces Engaged: 87,164

Killed: 2,108

Wounded: 9,549

Captured or Missing: 753

Total Casualties: 12,410

Union Officers

Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker

Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin

Maj. Gen. Henry W. Slocum

Maj. Gen. William F. Smith

Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside

Brig. Gen. Henry J. Hunt

Brig. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton

Brig. Gen. Abner Doubleday

Brig. Gen. Massena R. Patrick

Brig. Gen. John Gibbon

Brig. Gen. James B. Ricketts

Brig. Gen. George G. Meade

Brig. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock

Brig. Gen. Edwin  Vose Sumner

Brig. Gen. John C. Caldwell

Brig. Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher

Brig. Gen. Oliver O. Howard

Brig. Gen. Willis A. Gorman

Brig. Gen. Napoleon J.T. Dana

Brig. Gen. William H. French

Brig. Gen. Nathan Kimball

Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter

Brig. Gen. George Sykes

Brig. Gen. W. T. H. Brooks

Brig. Gen. Orlando B. Willcox

Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Sturges

Brig. Gen. James Nagle

Brig. Gen. Edward Ferrero

Brig. Gen. Alpheus S. Williams

Brig. Gen. Samuel W. Crawford

Brig. Gen. George H. Gordon

Brig. Gen. George S. Greene

Brig. Gen. Julius White

Union Order of Battle

Union Official Records - Page 1

Union Official Records - Page 2

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