TOTAL: Engaged, 20,950; Casualties, 3,720. The Irish experience at Antietam and millions of other stories will not be lost. The remains were accorded full military honors and returned to a New York cemetery for burial. The way this road got the name Bloody Lane is very gruesome yet very interesting. ", New York Irish speak out on who they’ll be voting for in the US election, WATCH: IFI marks World Day for Audiovisual Heritage with beautiful Donegal film, Get your Irish up this Halloween with these wonderful Irish stores and products, Murdered mother and children were strangled to death. © Copyright 2020 Irish Studio LLC All rights reserved. In fact, given the proliferation in Irish Studies programs at American colleges, I suspect that interest in 'our Irish heritage' has probably never been greater among the young. The ferocity of the battle is reflected in the appalling casualties suffered by both sides. Due to the massive scale of the losses, the Antietam death toll has always been hard to accurately determine. Great losses on both sides. Mid-Day Phase: primarily center of field, Sunken Road aka Bloody Lane There have been countless thousands of published works devoted to all or of it. That was the case for the Irish Brigade. In general terms, casualties of Civil War battles included 20% dead and 80% wounded. Hill’s Greatest Action, Harvest of Death: Visiting Antietam National Battlefield. Branch, William E. Starke, and George B. Anderson. They're preserving those stories and artifacts. The Battle of Antietam saw more than 22,000 soldiers die in 1862. Early in the war, the Irish Brigade earned a reputation for valor and discipline in battle (and indiscipline and intemperance in camp.) Three days prior to the Battle of Antietam, 12,000 Confederates fought a desperate holding action against 38,000 Federals atop South Mountain, buying time for Lee to gather his scattered army. It changed the world more than any other single event in history. CONFEDERATE: Engaged, 20,100; Casualties, 6,580 Sign up to IrishCentral's newsletter to stay up-to-date with everything Irish! Hill’s Light Division from Harpers Ferry, 12 miles away, blunted the Union drive and ended the battle. Missing or Captured: Union, 750; Confederate, 1,020 Yet later on when I was thinking about it I wondered how many of the grey-haired-heads in the audience were much interested in their Irish heritage when they were 20. Despite the size of the (admittedly mostly older) crowd, when one of the Museum's executives addressed us at the end he expressed a fear that interest in 'our Irish heritage' is waning, especially among the young. In the annals of military history magazines, this is one of those moments. © Copyright 2020 Irish Studio LLC All rights reserved. CONFEDERATE: Engaged, 7,150; Casualties, 1,120 However, the timely arrival of A.P. By chance, I was in Albany, NY, on Sunday and went to a lecture on the Irish Brigade in the American Civil War given by Siena College History Professor Tom Kelly (retired). Read More: The US Civil War's forgotten Irish heroes must be remembered say historians. That's what makes organizations like the Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany and similar bodies across the country important. Six generals either died on the field or succumbed to wounds suffered at Antietam, including Union Major Generals Joseph K.F. Wounded: Union, 9,550; Confederate, 7,750 Nearly 23,000 men were killed and wounded, with more than 1,500 Confederate dead and over 2,100 Union soldiers slain. At Antietam, the Irish Brigade was tasked with attacking Confederate troops, who were massed in a natural trench, a 'sunken road' created by man and nature over hundreds of years. Our line of historical magazines includes America's Civil War, American History, Aviation History, Civil War Times, Military History, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Vietnam, Wild West and World War II. South of his position, the 18th Georgia, Hampton’s Legion and the 4th Texas were also quitting the field. Professor Kelly's talk ranged over the entire war, but as he pointed out that the Irish Brigade really made its name at two battles: Antietam and Fredericksburg. The ferocity of the battle is reflected in the appalling casualties suffered by both sides. CONFEDERATE: Engaged, 6,800; Casualties, 2,600 TOTAL: 1,770 The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion give these numbers: Killed: Union, 2,100; Confederate, 1,550 TOTAL: 3,650 Wounded: Union, 9,550; Confederate, 7,750 TOTAL: 17,300 Missing or Captured: Union, 750; Confederate, 1,020 TOTAL: 1,770 Union Total Casualties: 12,400 Confederate Total Casualties: 10,320 Combined Total: 22,720 In addition to these losses, an untold number of civilians died from disease following the battle. Read More: The American Civil War through the eyes of an Irish photographer. What's important is that the stories of the old, the artifacts and details of history are not lost so that when today's young Irish Americans are older they can refer back and learn about the Irish experience in America. Civil War Times Editor Dana Shoaf shares the story of how Battery H of the 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery found itself in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg. There is no need for pessimism. Concealing terrain, the number of artillery pieces involved, the desperate nature of General Robert E. Lee’s stand with the Potomac River near his back, and the determination of the Union men of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac to destroy Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia before it could escape back into Virginia all contributed to the intense, close-quarter fighting and high casualties of America’s bloodiest day. Interest in our Irish heritage is going to grow, not wane, thanks to the Irish Studies programs, but mostly thanks to all the new technology that makes preserving the stories, history and even the artifacts so much easier than it was in the past. The Irish Brigade's dead and wounded were also numerous and spread over a small bit of the large field immediately in front of the Bloody Lane. As recently as 2009, the remains of soldiers who were interred on the field, their final resting places forgotten, have been rediscovered. Dead men and horses lay unburied for days, adding to the unsanitary conditions. So many soldiers of both sides died during the Battle of Antietam; casualties were sometimes buried hastily in shallow graves and never moved to formal cemeteries. James Kennedy Co.D, 69th regt. The culmination of the first invasion of the North during the American Civil War by General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, it was the bloodiest single day in the history of the United States and the bloodiest day’s fighting ever in the Western Hemisphere. Every house, barn and church was turned into a hospital. There has never been another single-day battle in the history of the United States with so many American casualties . Built and run by... Get inside articles from the world's premier publisher of history magazines. Dead men a… TOTAL: 17,300 [cat totalposts=’25’ category=’1272′ excerpt=’true’ order=’desc’ orderby=’post_date’]. Read More: Many Irish emigrated to fight in America's Civil War, Become a Friend of IrishCentral - help us to continue bringing Ireland to you, Coronavirus live updates: Fifteen deaths reported between NI and RoI today, Here’s who IrishCentral readers are supporting in the US presidential election, Postmortems underway for suspected murder-suicide of father and sons in Cork, On This Day: Irish Captain John Lonergan awarded Medal of Honor in the US, Trinity's live-stream discussion asks "Is there still an American Dream? Although they left scores of dead and wounded in their wake, the Union troops pressed on toward the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland, and were poised to trap Lee’s army against the Potomac River. The ferocity of that single day of fighting and the haphazard means by which graves were arranged has made the Antietam death toll hard to truly measure. The event was in the Irish American Heritage Museum in downtown Albany and it attracted a lot more people than they were anticipating. There have been countless thousands of published works devoted to all or of it. Times when the very landscape appears to shift. HistoryNet.com is brought to you by Historynet LLC, the world's largest publisher of history magazines.
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