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Dougherty, Terri

America's Deadliest Day: The Battle of Antietam

(4) 4-6 Edge Books: Bloodiest Battles series. "The battle of Antietam marked the bloodiest day America has ever seen." The text sketches the background of this historic Civil War battle, including tactics and strategies of both the Union and Confederate armies. Maps, black-and-white historical photographs (some with distracting red shading), and contemporary images graphically depict the human toll of the battle that many historians believe both sides lost. Reading list. Glos., ind.

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