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If 23,000 Americans fell in combat tomorrow in one place, we'd certainly find out about it, but how long would it be remembered? Forever, you'd think. That was the approximate casualty count on Sept. 17, 1862, in Sharpsburg, Md. It's the American military's catastrophic record, the greatest scream of all the screams in our history. But except for locals and Civil War students, nobody hears it anymore, not even its echo.

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