<1862 CIVIL WAR newspaper CONFEDERATE Acount BATTLE ANTIETAM Maryland SHARPSBURG

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<1862 CIVIL WAR newspaper CONFEDERATE Acount BATTLE ANTIETAM Maryland SHARPSBURG:
$45.00

1862 CIVIL WAR newspaper with an inside-page CONFEDERATE Account of the BATTLE ANTIETAM, near Sharpsburg,Maryland. -inv #3L-129

SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPER,theWorld (NY) dated September 27, 1862 with a fantastic CIVIL WAR history. An early Confederate view of theBattle of Antietam, which was the bloodiest day of the war!

Scarce CONFEDERATE history in this 1862 Civil War newspaper. THE uniqueCivil war artifact which will set your collection apart.

The Battle of Antietam also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign. It was the first field army-level engagement in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War to take place on Union soil and is the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with a combined tally of 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing.

After pursuing the Confederate general Robert E. Lee into Maryland, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan of the Union Army launched attacks against Lee\'s army, in defensive positions behind Antietam Creek. At dawn on September 17, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker\'s corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee\'s left flank. Attacks and counterattacks swept across Miller\'s Cornfield, and fighting swirled around the Dunker Church. Union assaults against the Sunken Road eventually pierced the Confederate center, but the Federal advantage was not followed up. In the afternoon, Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside\'s corps entered the action, capturing a stone bridge over Antietam Creek and advancing against the Confederate right. At a crucial moment, Confederate Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill\'s division arrived from Harpers Ferry and launched a surprise counterattack, driving back Burnside and ending the battle. Although outnumbered two-to-one, Lee committed his entire force, while McClellan sent in less than three-quarters of his army, enabling Lee to fight the Federals to a standstill. During the night, both armies consolidated their lines. In spite of crippling casualties, Lee continued to skirmish with McClellan throughout September 18, while removing his battered army south of the Potomac River.

Despite having superiority of numbers, McClellan\'s attacks failed to achieve force concentration, which allowed Lee to counter by shifting forces and moving interior lines to meet each challenge. Therefore, despite ample reserve forces that could have been deployed to exploit localized successes, McClellan failed to destroy Lee\'s army.

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