Antietam Creek Battle Analysis

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On September 16, 1862, the Confederates and the Union troops met near Maryland’s Antietam Creek, to undergo the bloodiest battle in U.S history. As General Robert E, Lee leads his Army across the Potomac River he divided his men, sending half of them, under the command of General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. While President Abraham Lincoln put Major General George B. McClellan in command of the Union troops responsible for protecting Washington, D.C., against Lee’s attacks.
And during the days of September 15 and 16, the Confederate and Union armies gathered on opposite sides of Antietam Creek. The fighting began at the dawn hours of September 17. As brutal and bloody combat continued, the Confederates were pushed back but not defeated, despite
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