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The Battle of Antietam
As Lee and McClellan's army slowly converged on Antietam, Barton realized that the army medical department was unprepared for what lay ahead. She took matters into her own hands, successfully lobbing the army to let her bring her own supplies to field hospitals on the front. But she got stalled behind a 10-mile line of Union supply wagons. The sound of bursting shells and whizzing bullets filled the air. Soldiers' faces were stained black from frantically biting off powder cartridges to reload their muskets. After five hours, twelve thousand soldiers lay dead or wounded.
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