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1 - 1oz Copper Round Challenge / Tribute Coin - "Battle of Antietam" Design
Metal Type: .999 Copper Weight: 1 oz Diameter: 39 mm
This tribute coin is beautiful, pictures cannot do it justice. It is part of 150th anniversary series of The Civil War. You have to see this coin with your own eyes to truly appreciate it's true beauty. I have another Civil War Coin, “Battle Of Gettysburg”. Someone could have two in the series by winning both auctions.
Antietam
Sharpsburg
September 16 - 18, 1862
WASHINGTON COUNTY, MARYLAND
The Army of the Potomac, under the command of George McClellan, mounted a series of powerful assaults against Robert E. Lee’s forces near Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862. The morning assault and vicious Confederate counterattacks swept back and forth through Miller’s Cornfield and the West Woods. Later, towards the center of the battlefield, Union assaults against the Sunken Road pierced the Confederate center after a terrible struggle. Late in the day, the third and final major assault by the Union army pushed over a bullet-strewn stone bridge at Antietam Creek. Just as the Federal forces began to collapse the Confederate right, the timely arrival of A.P. Hill’s division from Harpers Ferry helped to drive the Army of the Potomac back once more. The bloodiest single day in American military history ended in a draw, but the Confederate retreat gave Abraham Lincoln the “victory” he desired before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
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