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The Write Team Daily: "Bloody Lane"
September 17, 1862. Near Sharpsburg, Maryland.
Before the sun went down, more than 22,000 Union and Confederate soldiers would be killed, wounded, or missing in the Battle of Antietam—the bloodiest single day in American military history.
The fighting raged through the Cornfield, across a narrow road forever remembered as Bloody Lane, and around the stone crossing now known as Burnside Bridge. When darkness finally silenced the guns, Robert E. Lee's invasion of Maryland had been stopped. Five days later, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, giving the…
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