What caused the Antietam battle?

Answer 1

Lee had split his army into several divisions in the South Mountains (Maryland), and McLellan did not know their location.

However a set of Lee's orders fell into McLellan's hands, showing the proposed movements of these units. This put him in a strong position to destroy each of them in turn.

He would have been able to do this, if there hadn't been a Confederate spy in the camp, who reported the situation to Lee. So Lee had to concentrate his army in one place, and that was Antietam Creek, Sharpsburg.

The North won this battle, but did not manage to destroy Lee's Army, which was able to retreat to Virginia.

Answer 2

During the American Civil War, the Battle of Antietam occurred on September 17, 1862, and witnessed a bloody back-and-forth conflict between a Union army and a Confederate army in northwestern Maryland. The Confederate army was invading Northern territory; the Union army had deployed to stop it. After the day's fighting, with the larger Union army taking greater casualties while also proving more clumsy on the battlefield, both armies withdrew: the first 'Rebel' invasion of 'Yankee' territory had been stopped, if at great cost to the Union force which also missed an opportunity to deal the Confederates a decisive defeat.

Answer 3

The Battle of Antietam began September 17, 1862.
The battle opened on September 17th, 1862, when Hooker's I Corps began their advance through the cornfield around 5:30 am. The battle was over roughly eleven hours later.

Answer 4

On July 1 1863 Henry Heth's division (CSA) was marching down the Cashtown pike toward's the town of Gettysburg when they were met by Gamble's Brigade of Union cavlary near the Macpherson farm just west of that town. Spotting the Confederates at some distance Gamble deployed his dismounted cavalry along Willoughby run and ordered his battery of cannon to open fire on Archer's brigade. Thus began the battle of Gettysburg.

Answer 5

it started lee was trying to invade there space. He also went so he could gain recruit to the unions supplies. He tried to take there supplies.That is how it started!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

The start of the Battle of Antietam began with the Union launching an attack against the Confederacy. The battle occurred on September 17, 1862.

Answer 7

The accidental discovery by Union troops that Lee's divisions were widely separated, and could be destroyed, one by one, if they moved fast enough.

Answer 8

The Union camp was riding into an abandened Southern camp and they found Lee's plans wrapped around a bunch of cigars. The union then attacked the South before they attacked D.C