Battle of Antietam: Bloodiest Day in U.S. History | Battlefield Detectives (S2, E7) | Full Episode

Still in 2024, our nation as then, had very negative ideals of and for America.

I am the direct decendent of,"Jumpin J Jehosaphat".

Thanks Obama

Manson called it!!!!!

Great presentation. Informative, illuminating, shocking.

the south will rise again! except maybe it’s coming over the border?

Didnt mention how the union was an all black troop

I would love to see you hit a 1000 yard shot with a musket. IDC if it's rifled or not. He said "accurate up to 1000 yards". Nah man. Absolutely not.

My Great Great Grandfather PVT Alonzo Knox Hayes 34th New York Infantry fought at Antietam! I take exception to this video stating the Confederate soldiers were "more experienced" and if the Union had a competent commander such as Grant the war very well could have ended that day!

I see where Biden told a group of veterans that he fought there -- on both sides.

At the Carter house in Franklin, Tennessee, I see hunks of solid brick blown out. These bullets were devastating to the body.

Great video by Battlefield Detectives. Very detailed and informative. Great research and investigatory methods used. I appreciate the horror and bloodshed of Antietam and the Civil War.

All so migrants can come here and cause trouble

I had 37 ancestors wounded by a single cannon blast when they charged the Iron Brigade Battery on the edge of the cornfield. My Great Great Grandad pulled the lanyard.

I've got a .73 caliber Enfield squat musket. It was designed for buck and ball.

General McClellan was the South Greatest Weapon!

Gary Gallagher, the Yankee again?

Horrible stuff...but here we go again..tRump and his confederates are gearing up to do it again. I support DEMOCRACY AND THE USA! Think about what's coming people. I don't want a king, I want democracy. You choose but do it soon, it's coming. These "people" are insane.

My perspective is this, you cant march into battle side by side and the other doing the same. We dont do it that way any more and the US are or were very tactical beyond 12 against a 100 or more challenge

I can’t deduce how the tacticians of the time didn’t adjust the firing lines in the basic warfare tactics. Armed groups outnumbered the open marching in front of each other with no cover is insane.

Civil war vets are not founding fathers.
That would be the revolutionary war.
Some statutes were moved, not destroyed.
Erected by the daughter's of the revolution, moved from public lands to private land.
Why praise traitors ?

I have seceded. Its 2024.

Pushing truth under the matt and not talking about it is exactly what the media is doing today.

The intelligent thing to do would have been to just give up slavery. No men had to die. No blood had to be shed. All of that only to delay the inevitable.

I am army retired army, M1A1 Tanks, I am amazed how these soldiers can just be in a line and keep moving forward, when to your left and right men are dropping dead, what type mental state to keep people going was it fear, of punishment, duty, .... their minds were on some type of different zone.

How many died ? I always thought Gettysburg was the bloodiest

It is my understanding that research has shown that despite rifle, muskets, being way more accurate, they did not have as much impact as his often assumed because soldiers still tended to fire too high and accuracy was still very poor. Obviously, in the hands of a sniper or somebody who can really take good aim it’s different but your average soldier in a chaotic engagement Was not doing that.

Antietam slaughter explains why Lincoln had to be assassinated. Lincoln could have said. Wayward sisters depart in peace! The Civil War could have been avoided. Lincoln was a shit!.

120mm rheinmetel smoothbore

Murder tactics

I can't imagine a stand up gun battle like this

Classic History Channel nostalgia

Yeah, so anyway I just escaped the Vietnam barely periods of my older friends that survived came back said f*** do not go there. Over the centuries the Millennia all these wars none of them made sense

It would be a terrible thing to say don't just spray lead Pick Your Man

It's called laid to rest not laid to be dug up by some dbag,

When touring Gettysburg on a rainy day you may still be able to smell 👃 the blood..and or bloody 🩹 bandages ?., some years ago you could, true story....😮

Their lucky they got out of there before the Gatling gun arrived 😮

1000 yards for a mini ball is Ludicrous.

I didn’t know Mr. Miller’s cornfield was one of the most famous plaices in America. Learn something knew err day

Friendly fire caused a lot of deaths at Antietam? Like 100?

RIP
To the 2,108 Union troops and 1,567 Confederate troops who were killed in the Battle of Antietam

22,720! That’s like a small college arena.

Conical artillery shells were first used at Antietam.

this is why I DO NOT admire Mr Lincoln

The minie ball and other such projectiles dealt inhumane injuries on fellow humans, they should have been outlawed, but then where do you stop.

Imagine if one side had 5 drones. Game over

I was also a Calle 58 Halo center similar to a 12 gauge shotgun slug at close range,

Antietam was the cruelest, bloody and horrifying day in the Civil War. What type of cruelty would have designed Antietam as doorway to Hell itself?

What paranormal cruelty existed prior to the battle of Antietam shaped the landscape to be so cruel?

As a Marine combat veteran, I really struggle to wrap my head around this method of fighting a battle. Brave, brave men.