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The Real Lesson Of Antietam
Porter's Journal Issue #107, Volume #2
Porter Stansberry
September 17, 2025
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Today is the bloodiest day in America’s history.
On this day 163 years ago almost 90,000 Americans wearing blue coats fought, virtually to the last man, 50,000 Americans wearing grey coats. The Confederate States Army called the battle “Sharpsburg,” in reference to the nearby small Maryland town. But victors publish history books. Today, the battle is called “Antietam,” in reference to a small creek that runs through Sharpsburg’s cornfields to the Potomac River.
In the span of a single day, the Union suffered more than 12,000 casualties. The South suffered more than 10,000. Those 20,000-plus casualties brought to the world savagery on a new scale.
Antietam saw casualties equal to half of the total American casualties of the eight-year American Revolution 80-some years before.
And it foreshadowed even more carnage.
A year later, at another cornfield, more than 50,000 men would fall over three days at the battle of Gettysburg.
If you’d asked Americans in 1860 whether a civil war was coming, virtually all of them would have laughed and said it was impossible. And even if they realized there was the potential for such a conflict, they could have never imagined how many people would die – more than 700,000 people, including 100,000 civilians.
In America’s Second Civil War, the casualties will be dramatically worse. I believe it’s inevitable that millions of people will die. And I think that war has already begun.
Yes, I can hear you laughing. That’s okay. But print this out and hang on to it:
In the future, most historians will date the beginning of America’s Second Civil War to the fall of 2025.
Donald Trump’s and Charlie Kirk’s shootings are part of the reason. But the major milestone is the election of a Muslim communist to mayor of New York City in the fall of 2025.
That’s the start of this war.