Who where the People involved in the Battle of Antietam?

Answer 1

Col. Rutherford B. Hayes, comander 23rd Ohio - future U.S. President

Pvt. William McKinley, 23rd Ohio - future U.S. President

Capt. Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr., 20th Mass. - future Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court

by: jackrabb@Yahoo.com

Hayes was not present at Antietam on September 17th 1862--he had been wounded September 14th at the battle of South Mountain and was recuperating at a friends home in Middletown, Md. He was in Middletown from Sept. 15th to October 5th at which point he returned to Ohio to recuperate with family until Nov. 29th

William McKinley was at Antietam but he was a commissary Sergeant, not a Pvt.

Answer 2

3 important people of the Battle of Antietam:

1.) General George B. McClellan (U): Commander of the Union Army of the Potomac at the time, mostly known for his slow moving "cautious" actions during battles.

2.) General Ambrose Burnside (U): Divisional Commander under McClellan, made famous for taking the "Burnside" Bridge, but criticized because of his slow actions of taking it. *Held off for hours by only a few hundred Georgia Troops*

3.) General A.P Hill (C): At the time Divisional Commander under Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson. Hill had been at Harpers Ferry w/ the rest of Jackson's forces when he was sent to the aide of Lee's crumbling army. Just as Union forces began their assault on Lee's right flank, Hill's division arrived and saved the confederate army from destruction.

Answer 3

General George B. McClellan

General Robert E. Lee

General A.P hill