| 1862/09/17 |
Edward Hutchinson Revere |
Union Surgeon |
Edward Revere is shot and killed while caring for wounded soldiers at the Battle of Antietam |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/17 |
George B McClellan |
Union commander |
George B McClellan commands the 75500-man Army of the Potomac |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/17 |
Charles C Duff |
Soldier |
New York Infantry fights at the Battle of Antietam. |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/17 |
Oliver Otis Howard |
Union Commander |
Oliver O Howard commands a division of the 2nd Corps at the battle of Antietam. |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/17 |
Paul Joseph Revere |
Union Commander |
Paul Joseph Revere is wounded during the Battle of Antietam. |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/17 |
Robert Hale Ives Jr |
Union Lieut |
While commanding the 3rd Division, IX Corps, Robert Ives leads a charge against a Rebel battery and is hit by cannon shot in the thigh. The projectile tore away the flesh from the bone for several inches and passes into his horse, killing the animal. |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/17 |
Maj Gen John Sedgwick |
Union Commander |
Confederate forces lead by Gen Thomas J Jackson attack Sedgwick's division from three sides. Sedgwick is shot three times, in the wrist, leg and shoulder. Routed, the Union forces fall back with barely half the men it began with. |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/17 |
Major Henry R Rathbone |
Union commander |
Captain Henry Rathbone commands a company of Union soldiers at the Battle of Antietam |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/17 |
Col Benjamin W Crowninshield |
Union Captain |
George B McClellan commands the 75500-man Army of the Potomac |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/17 |
Robert Brown Potter |
Col, New York Militia |
Col Robert B Potter of the 51st New York Volunteer Infantry, is slightly wounded twice at Antietam while participating in Ambrose Burnside's attack on the Confederate right flank. |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/17 |
Adolphus Washington Greely |
Wounded Union Soldier |
Dolphus Greely of the 19th Mass Volunteer Infantry, is wounded at Antietam. |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/17 |
Elkanah L Burson |
Confederate Officer |
Elkanah Burson is wounded at Sharpsburg |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/17 |
Charles Francis Adams Jr |
Union Captain |
George B McClellan commands the 75500-man Army of the Potomac |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/17 |
Ambrose E Burnside |
Union ArmyGeneral |
Col Robert B Potter of the 51st New York Volunteer Infantry, is slightly wounded twice at Antietam while participating in Ambrose Burnside's attack on the Confederate right flank. |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/17 |
Fitzhugh Lee |
Confederate Commander |
Robert E Lee commands the 38000-man Army of Northern Virginia |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/17 |
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee |
Confederate Commander |
Robert E Lee commands the 38000-man Army of Northern Virginia |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/17 |
Robert E Lee |
Confederate Commander |
Robert E Lee commands the 38000-man Army of Northern Virginia |
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Battle of Antietam |
| 1862/09/18 |
Robert Hale Ives Jr |
Health |
Several hospital tents are pitched on an eminence a little distance from the field, and to these General Rodman, Lieutenant Ives, and some other wounded officers from Rhode Island, are removed. |
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| 1862/09/18 |
Gen Isaac Peace Rodman |
Health |
Several hospital tents are pitched on an eminence a little distance from the field, and to these General Rodman, Lieutenant Ives, and some other wounded officers from Rhode Island, are removed. |
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| 1862/10/03 |
George B McClellan |
Union commander |
President Lincoln confers with General George B McClellan near the Antietam Battlefield. |
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| 1862/10/03 |
Abraham Lincoln |
Visitor |
President Lincoln confers with General George B McClellan near the Antietam Battlefield. |
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