Confederate Slaughter in the West Woods of Antietam | History Traveler Episode 250

As the fighting in the Battle of Antietam that started in Miller's cornfield rolled south, it shifted into an area now known as "the West Woods". In an effort to move against the soldiers in Stonewall Jackson's Corps, the Union men of Sumner's 2nd Corps moved west. What they didn't know is that a Confederate wave that building to their south was about to slam into their left flank.

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