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Winner at Antietam

In this battle the Union Army won. We know this because Lee started the retreat back to the Potomac River. When this battle ended it changed the course of the war, now the war was not only to support the Union, it also wanted to free the slaves. The slaves were freed when Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation. Also one of the reasons this battle started was because the south wanted recognition from Europe and when the North won this battle it caused Great Britain to think twice before joining the Confederacy.
This was a Union victory albeit a very close outcome and some historians consider it a draw. It was good enough to embolden Abraham Lincoln, who needed a victory, and he issued the Emancipation Proclamation shortly after the battle.
The Union - only by chance, but it was a decisive victory. It gave Lincoln the credibility to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which kept Britain out of it.
The Union won a strategic victory in the Battle of Antietam. The battle was fought on September 17, 1862.

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