The Battle Of Antietam
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( or Sharpsburg) on September 17, 1862,
climaxed the first of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s two attempts to
carry the war into the north. About 40,000 southerners were against the
87,000- man Federal Army of the Potomac under General George McClellan.
When the fighting had ended, the cours ....
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.... the northerners. McClellan
forced his way through, and by the afternoon of September 15, both armies
had established new battlelines west and east of Antietam Creek, near the
town Sharpsburg. When Jackson’s troops reached Sharpsburg on the 16th,
Harpers Ferry having surrendered the day before, Lee consolidated his
position along the low ridge that runs north and south of the town. The
battle opened at dawn on the 17th when Union General Joseph Hooker’s
artillery began a murderous fire o ....
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