Battle Of Antietam Staff Ride Guide

Describes the battle on 17 September 1862 when nearly 70,000 Federal troops actually engaged in the battle, nearly 13,000 were killed, wounded, or missing; the approximately 35,000 Confederates engaged lost almost as many. General McClellan's indecision allowed General Lee to withdraw to the safety of the Virginia shore.

Ted Ballard was a historian with the U.S. Army Center of Military History from 1980–2004 and a part of the Center’s staff ride program since 1986. Battle of Antietam joins his other battlefield guides to Ball’s Bluff and First and Second Bull Run. He was a contributor to the Center’s publication The Story of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps; the author of Rhineland, a brochure in the Center’s series commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of World War II; and a contributor to the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command publication American Military Heritage and to the Virginia Army National Guard publication The Tradition Continues: A History of the Virginia National Guard, 1607–1985.