Civil War Combat: America's Bloodiest Battles
The Bloody Lane at Antietam
S1 • E2 Feb 22, 2000
In September 1862, Robert E. Lee invaded the North for the first time and met the Union army along the banks of Maryland's Antietam Creek, which became the sight of the bloodiest single day in U.S. military history. Visit the scene of the most concentrated fury of that day, on a narrow country road forever after called "Bloody Lane".
