Battle of Antietam

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NVN P-4 Torpedo Boats attacked the destroyer USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin on 02 August 1964. A photograph taken by Maddox crewmen shows 3 North Vietnamese Navy Motor Torpedo Boats attacking head on. Another photo shows two of their torpedo boats moving at high speed with splashes behind them as the Maddox's 5" gun (cannon) shells explode behind them. The Torpedo boats launched 3 or 4 torpedo's but missed.

E. J. Fitzgerald commissioned a painting of the battle in Janurary 1965, entitled, "Surface Action, Starboard". This artwork depicts the USS Maddox firing her broadsides at three NVN torpedo boats running along side her...shell splashes an all.

Interestingly, both the USN and the NVN reported one of their P4 boats destroyed in the battle...it apparently survived. The destroyer was only hit by one 25mm shell.

Both Antietam and Gettysburg represent the two most serious efforts by the South to bring the war North. By failing to win a decisive victory, the South's chance at winning independence from the North diminished. Some call Gettysburg, the high water mark of the Confederacy. On the same day Pickett's charge failed, Vicksburg also surrendered, from that point onward it was all downhill for the South.

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In September of 1862, Antietam Creek was the site of a major confrontation between the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of Robert E. Lee and the forces of the Union's Army of the Potomac under generals reporting to George B. McClellan.

The creek was near the city of Sharpsburg, Maryland. It was one of the bloodiest battles in US history. The end result was a retreat of the Confederate forces as the Union army won the day. Lee was able to recross his army back over the Potomac River into Virginia. McClellan was criticized for his lack of aggressive pursuit.

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Grant was not allowed to maintain the momentum set-up by his victory at Shiloh, and the Western operations slowed down as General-in-Chief Halleck divided the Western forces into three and gave them separate tasks.

One army was meant to safeguard Kentucky against Confederate invasion, but in the end Kentucky was only saved by the unexplained retreat of the Confederates, with no credit due to the Union commander.

Another army was put to work repairing railroads.

The third, under Grant, was ordered to hold Western Tennessee, and only allowed to take the offensive because Lincoln was personally worried about the North-West losing interest in the war, if the Mississippi was not liberated.

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The result or outcome of the Battle of Antietam(in which Union Army won) was freeing of slaves after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

To deprive enemy forces who may follow after them _ as well as supporters of the enemy _ food and shelter. It also served as an effective terror weapon, as used by Union General Tecumshah Sherman in his campaign of devastation as he marched through the South, stealing at will whatever his troops could use and destroying anything they could not. Also, in previous wars, as well as perhaps this one, it was used to discourage retreat or desertation. If troops leave no food or shelter behind them, as well as an extremely unhappy civilian population, then the troops are less likely to attempt to desert or retreat.

The Battle of Antietam.

When Lee invaded the Maryland in 1862, a buck private of McClellan's Union Army picked up from the ground a copy of the Order of Operation Number 191 issued by Lee's headquarter. The document was duly handed over to McClellan, who now exactly knew Lee's whole plan of campaign.

But, this notwithstanding, he fought the battle in a such a cautious and uncertain way as to obtain only a minor victory, thus wasting a great chance to inflict a decisive defeat to the Confederate Army.

Furthermore, after Lee left the battlefield and retreated, the victorious McClellan didn't effectively pursued the Confederate army. That meant he wasted another opportunity to win a larger victory.

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No. Antietam was a Union victory, although entirely accidental, and not followed-up with the capture of Lee's whole army, as Lincoln thought it should have been. The battle is classified as a "technical" victory for McClellan.

It was also a very decisive event, because it gave to Lincoln what he believed to be the credibility to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which made it impossible for Britain to recognize the South. Britain did however continue to build and sell warships to the Confederacy.

As for battles that were not Union victories, well there are a number of those. This should be addressed at another time.

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No.

The Anaconda Plan was the original strategy of squeezing the life out of the Confederacy by blockading the ports and sealing-off the Mississippi, before advancing into the South and defeating the starving enemy. It was considered too slow for what everyone thought would be a short war. But the Union eventually adopted a plan very like it.

Antieam was the battle in Maryland that halted Robert E. Lee's spectacular run of victories that had almost brought in the British on the side of the Confederates. (Lee's unexpected defeat at Antietam put that one on the back-burner, where it remained.)

The French and the British governments gave Lincoln the Emancipation to encourage the US to grant recognition to the Confedarecy in the battle of Antietam.

It was the first time Lee's army was defeated in the field. It showed that the Union training was effective, and, under he right circumstances, it could defeat Lee's forces. It halted Lee's invasion of Maryland and sent him back across the Potomac to Virginia. Finally, it gave Lincoln the long-awaited opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, seizing the moral high ground, and preventing European intervention on the Confederate side.

there are several turning points but the main one is Gettysburg

The bloodiest single-day battle of the war, this attempt of Lee's to invade the North was thwarted

They gave the public a real view of the war they had never seen before.

William Blount was an American politician who is one of the signatories of US constitution. He was a Senator from Tennessee and also served as Governor of Southwest Territories. A recent research showed that around 30 slaves were kept in Blount Mansion as workers by William Blount. This shows that he believed in Slavery and practiced it as well.

The northerners won the battle.

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Neither gained much advantages in the battle and the battle ended in a draw. The following day Lee had to withdraw from Maryland due to heavy casualties suffered from the battle. The actual battle itself was a draw but it ended the invasion of Maryland.

Antietam (Sharpsburg) - Sept. 1862

General George Meade commanded te Federal forces.

A set of Lee's orders, accidentally dropped in the field by a Confederate officer.

By chance, these were found by Union troops and shown to McLellan. The document revealed that Lee's army was divided into three parts that were widely separated. McLellan rejoiced that he now had the game in his hands: he could destroy Lee's divisions piecemeal.

But there was a Confederate spy in his camp, who was able to get word to Lee about the new situation. Even then, McLellan could have destroyed Lee's army, if he had moved at once. But he delayed just long enough to allow Lee to concentrate his forces.

McLellan did win the ensuing battle, but failed to destroy the Army of Northern Virginia, either during the battle, or afterwards when that army was retreating back to Virginia in a vulnerable position.

This performance earned McLellan the sack by Lincoln. The Confederate defeat, however, had momentous consequences for the outcome of the war. It gave Lincoln the credibility to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which turned the war into an official crusade against slavery, making it impossible for Britain and France to aid the South without looking pro-slavery themselves.

That careless Confederate officer has a lot to answer for!