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The Eastern Theater of the Civil War saw the bloodiest and most famous battles as well as the biggest losses giving the Iron Brigade a chance to demonstrate its mettle during legendary confrontations with Robert E Lees Army of Northern Virginia particularly at the battles of Second Bull Run South Mountain Antietam and Gettysburg In fact the brigade suffered the highest percentage of casualties of any brigade in the Civil War rendering it almost incapable of maintaining a fighting force by June 1864 during the middle of Ulysses S Grants Overland Campaign