Not all days can be labeled equally. Some are good, some are grand, some are sad, and others are boring and easily forgotten.

But some days are so horrificly ingrained in our history, like that of the Battle of Antietam.

It's so horrific that it cannot be forgotten

and lives in the remnants of land, buildings, writings, and inspired poems.

Landscapes turned red by Stephen W. Sears paints a vivid picture of what that deadly day was.

Of all the days on all the fields where American soldiers have fought. The most terrible by almost any

measure was September 17th 1862. The battle waged on that date close to Antietam

Creek at Sharpsburg in Western Maryland, took a

human toll never exceeded on any other single day in the nation's history.

So intense and unsustainable was the violence.

A man recalled that for a moment in his mind's eye,

the very landscape around him turned red. Red.

Welcome to National Park After Dark. You're going to do. Well, well, well, a story I have nothing and no idea about.

I don't know anything about this battle. Nothing at all.

No.

It's really interesting that you say that

because this battle is very reminiscent of Gettysburg and that one is so popular

Yeah, popular

Remember well known. Yeah, yeah remembered. Yeah I'm remembered yeah I definitely don't know much about this and I know you're doing a

paranormal angle I sure am it's spooky season. Hello everybody and before spooky

season there are so much that has happened with the Battle of Antietam and

there are so many stories so many avenues that you can go down but for this one because it's October I

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