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Why is September 17, 1862 considered the bloodiest single day of the Civil War?

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The fighting at Antietam was so fierce that Sept. 17, 1862, is said to have been the bloodiest single day of the war with some 23,000 dead and wounded, evenly divided between the sides.

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