Robert Gould Shaw awoke on September 18, 1862 within feet of roughly twenty dead “Rebel” soldiers. He had survived the previous day’s bloody fighting in and around the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland and along the Antietam Creek, which had left thousands of dead and wounded. It would be remembered as the single bloodiest day in American history.
The battle…
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