March 19th - Thursday --- Cousin David took Jack and I to the Antietam Battlefield. It was truly amazing. First we watched a movie with people doing a reenactment of the battles. Then we drove to all the places we had just seen in the movie. Antietam was the bloodiest one-day Battle of the American Civil Was, over 26,000 men died that day. Just 3 days later on September 20. 1962, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.