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This question is miscategorized. Marye's Heights was at Fredricksburg not Antietam.
McLellan did not move quite fast enough to destroy Lee's divisions piecemeal. So Lee had just enough time to concentrate his forces at Antietam Creek.
The Battle of Antietam, an important battle of the Civiil War, was fought by the Army of the Potomac, part of the Union Army, under the command of General George McClellan, and Confederate forces under the command of General Robert E. Lee on September 17, 1862.
The Battle of Antietam took place near the Antietam Creek, near Sharpsburg, Maryland in September of 1862. This was the first time Confederate General Lee took his forces into Union territory. Maryland was a slave state that remained in the Union. It was one of the bloodiest battles in American history. Union General Burnside, under the command of General George B. McClellan forced Lee back into Virginia as a result of the battle. Not long afterwards US President Lincoln visited General McClellan to see the battlefield itself.
قاد الجنرال روبرت إي لي الجيش الكونفدرالي لشمال فيرجينيا في معركة أنتيتام.
The Battle of Antietam was known as Sharpsburg to the Confederate forces.
This question is miscategorized. Marye's Heights was at Fredricksburg not Antietam.
You're probably thinking of Sharpsburg. The Union referred to it as the Battle of Antietam (after Antietam Creek) while the Confederacy referred to it as the Battle of Sharpsburg.
Antietam (or Sharpsburg to the Confederates)
Antietam/Sharpsburg (Maryland)
Antietam. The battle is often known as Sharpsburg by Southerners.
McLellan did not move quite fast enough to destroy Lee's divisions piecemeal. So Lee had just enough time to concentrate his forces at Antietam Creek.
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The Battle of Antietam, an important battle of the Civiil War, was fought by the Army of the Potomac, part of the Union Army, under the command of General George McClellan, and Confederate forces under the command of General Robert E. Lee on September 17, 1862.
Lee commanded about 65,000 men at Chancellorsville.
The Battle of Antietam, an important battle of the Civiil War, was fought by the Army of the Potomac, part of the Union Army, under the command of General George McClellan, and Confederate forces under the command of General Robert E. Lee on September 17, 1862.
The battle of Antietam or Sharpsburg prevented the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Lee from invading the northern states. The battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville were Confederate victories preventing the US forces from taking the Confederate capital of Richmond.