BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ZContent.net//Zap Calendar 1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg UID:2008-05-08-05-35-21-63-@americanhistorycalendar.com SEQUENCE:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED TRANSP:OPAQUE RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=9;BYMONTHDAY=17 DTSTART;TZID=UTC;VALUE=DATE:20250917 DTEND;TZID=UTC;VALUE=DATE:20250918 DTSTAMP:20260417T031902 CATEGORIES:Civil War Events LOCATION:Sharpsburg\, Maryland GEO:39.4575994;-77.748882 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n\n\n

The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, during the American Civil War. It marked the fi rst major battle of the war to take place on Union soil and became the blo odiest single day in American history, with around 23,000 soldiers killed, wounded, or missing. Union forces under General George B. McClellan clash ed with Confederate troops led by General Robert E. Lee, who had invaded M aryland in hopes of gaining support from European powers and encouraging b order states to join the Confederacy. The battle ended tactically inconclu sive, but Lee’s retreat back to Virginia gave President Abraham Lincoln a strategic victory. This allowed Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancip ation Proclamation, which reframed the war as a fight against slavery and discouraged foreign nations from aiding the Confederacy.

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DESCRIPTION:The Battle of Antietam\, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg \, was fought on September 17\, 1862\, near Sharpsburg\, Maryland\, during the American Civil War. It marked the first major battle of the war to ta ke place on Union soil and became the bloodiest single day in American his tory\, with around 23\,000 soldiers killed\, wounded\, or missing. Union f orces under General George B. McClellan clashed with Confederate troops le d by General Robert E. Lee\, who had invaded Maryland in hopes of gaining support from European powers and encouraging border states to join the Con federacy. The battle ended tactically inconclusive\, but Lee’s retreat b ack to Virginia gave President Abraham Lincoln a strategic victory. This a llowed Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation\, which reframed the war as a fight against slavery and discouraged foreign nation s from aiding the Confederacy.\n\n URL:https://americanhistorycalendar.com/component/zcalendar/2,6666-battle-o f-antietam-sharpsburg?Itemid= END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR