Question

Which of these news headlines would have most likely appeared in Northern newspapers the day after the Battle of Antietam? Confederate Leader Gives His Life in Antietam The Confederacy’s Greatest Triumph Union Gains an Edge on the Confederacy Spirit of the North Broken by the Outcome of Antietam

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The answer is:   Union Gains an Edge on the Confederacy.

During wars, the press is usually censored or it serves propaganda purposes.

Historians consider the Battle of Antietam a stalemate. On that day, September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland,  fighting was ferocious on both sides, with troops often firing with muskets and cannons at a close range, with offensives and counteroffensives by both sides. Sources report over 23,000 casualties in total, 3,650 dead. According to historians, it remains the deadliest  one-day battle in American military history.

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