I saw this article about the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam from the American NRP site. It states that “on this morning (17th September) 150 years ago, Union and Confederate troops clashed at the crossroads town of Sharpsburg, Md. The Battle of Antietam remains the bloodiest single day in American history. The battle left 23,000 men killed or wounded in the fields, woods and dirt roads, and it changed the course of the Civil War” before explaining how.
What struck me however it the somewhat embarrassing truth that I know almost nothing meaningful about the American Civil War. I had not even heard of the Battle of Antietam. We in Europe are always so quick to be critical of perceived US parochialism. Perhaps we should look at ourselves a bit first…
Mr Kydd.
