General McClellan found General Lee's battle plan.
A set of Lee's orders that had been dropped in the field and shown to McClellan. They revealed that Lee's divisions were widely separated, and vulnerable.
McClellan's troops atttacked the larger part of lee's army at Antietam creek, near sharpsburg, Maryland on september 17,1862.
A set of Lee's orders that a Confederate officer had accidentally dropped in the field. They showed that Lee's divisions were widely separated, and that McClellan could destroy them piecemeal.
The commander of the Confederate army at Antietam was General Robert E. Lee.
The commander of the Confederate army at Antietam was General Robert E. Lee.
The Confederate Army was commanded by General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Antietam.
The Confederate Army was commanded by General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Antietam.
The commander of the Confederate army at Antietam was General Robert E. Lee.
The Union Army. Gettysburg was the turning point of the Civil War.
It was a battle fought in the North, and resulted in the most casualties in US history. It also was a defeat for Robert E. Lee who needed a victory that may have influenced Britain and France to lend aid to the Confederacy.
he was on the south
Robert E. Lee