Union troops needed to cross Antietam Creek to flank the Confederate Army. Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside had orders to take a stone bridge crossing the creek, even though it meant his forces would ...

At Antietam, Burnside forced his troops into repeated assaults across a narrow bridge dominated by Confederate sharpshooters, when a careful reconnaissance of the area would have revealed several ...

At the Battle of Antietam, Burnside commanded the 13,000-man IX Corps ordered to take the strategic bridge over Antietam Creek, a bridge that bears his name today. The general was late to the ...