Among the thousands who fought in the pivotal Battle of Antietam were
scores of Ohioans. Sending eleven regiments and two batteries to the
fight, the Buckeye State lost hundreds during the Maryland Campaign's
first engagement, South Mountain, and hundreds more gave their last full
measure of devotion at the Cornfield, the Bloody Lane and Burnside's
Bridge. Many of these brave men are buried at the Antietam National
Cemetery. Aged veterans who survived the ferocious contest returned to
Antietam in the early 1900s to fight for and preserve the memory of
their sacrifices all those years earlier. Join Kevin Pawlak and Dan
Welch as they explore Ohio's role during those crucial hours on
September 17, 1862.