Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam and Emancipation 

The Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks,  changed the course of the Civil War—and the country itself—forever

TIMELINE  1860-1862

Lincoln elected president (November 1860)

South Carolina secedes (December 1860)

Confederacy formed (February  1861)

First Battle of Bull Run (Mananas) (July 1861); It will not be a 90 day war 

The Battle of Antietam 

Emancipation Proclamation Draft (September 1862)   

The 54th Massachusetts

Civil War Draft Act  (March 1863)

Vicksburg and Gettysburg (July 1863)