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17 September 1862, at the end of the bloodiest days in our nations military history, exhausted Union and Confederate soldiers along Antietam Creek, near Sharpsbuurg, MD, try and recover from the days battle. Over 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were either killed, wounded or declared missing in action on that day. Future President and Ohioan William McKinley served and survived the Civil War, only to be killed by an assassin’s bullet while serving as the nation’s 25th President. Sergeant McKinley was a Commissary Sergeant with the 23rd Ohio of Colonel Hugh Ewing’s Brigade. During the battle, Sergeant McKinley bravely served the soldiers in his regiment. Another future U.S. President from the same Civil War regiment, Rutherford B. Hayes said that, "Early in the afternoon, naturally enough, with the exertion required of the men, they were famished and thirsty, and to some extent broken in spirit. The commissary department of that brigade was under Sergeant McKinley’s administration and personal supervision. From his hands every man in the regiment was served with hot coffee and warm meats.... He passed under fire and delivered, with his own hands, these things, so essential for the men for whom he was laboring."