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Antietam
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Antietam
indecisive battle of the Civil War (1862). [Am. Hist.: Harbottle Battles, 15]
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In five years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States has suffered nearly 5,000 dead, about the level of casualties experienced over five months during the height of the Vietnam War, in five weeks during World War I, or in five hours at the battle of Antietam during the American Civil War.
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