Battle of Antietam

Numerically, yes.

In lives lost in combat, it was the costliest single day in American history.

But this unexpected Northern win was a morale-booster for Lincoln, who felt it had given him enough credibility to issue his Emancipation Proclamation.

The battle was fought September 14, 1862, just prior to the Battle of Antietam.

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Yes

US Civil War

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.

The objectives of the invasion of Maryland were the following:

1 - Threaten the vital centers of the enemy, taking away any possibility of sending troops against Richmond.

2 - Make his Army to live on the resources of Maryland, giving relief to the devastated and impoverished Virginia.

3 - Encourage and provoke the people of Maryland to actively siding with the South.

4 - Draw the Army of the Potomac far away from the entrenched camp of Washington trying to inflict them a decisive defeat.

5 - Thanks to this victory to get the Confederacy recognised as independent state by Great Britain and France and making probable their intervention in the conflict.

Pure accident.

A Confederate officer had dropped a set of Lee's orders in the field, and they were discovered by Union troops.

These orders revealed that Lee's divisions were widely separated, giving McClellan a chance to destroy them piecemeal.

He did not move quite fast enough to achieve this. Also a Confederate spy in the Union camp was able to get word to Lee of what had happened, and he hastily concentrated his forces.

But the result was a Union victory - and a very historic one.

US President Lincoln and General in Chief Henry Wager Halleck were critical of General McClellan for not moving immediately against the Army of Northern Virginia after the Battle of Antietam. It can be debated that McClellan had difficulties in resupplying his army, which was huge and reequipping it was a time costly task. This was the reason he believed that an immediate advance against Lee's army was not the correct move.

His view is confirmed as General Robert E. Lee saw the strategic situation in the same way. McClellan realized that Lee's two-sided base was a threat to his army in Virginia. Lee's home base had support.

Richmond and the vital Virginia Central railroad. Good roads and a rail link to the Shenandoah Valley was Lee's base to the West. It was also rich in food supplies.

From Lee's Valley base he would threaten the flank and rear of any Union army moving south to Richmond.

And attacking Lee's army directly in Virginia, without resupplying would not be a good move by McClellan.

President Lincoln did not see the value of McClellan's hesitation. But if Lincoln knew Lee agreed with McClellan, his attitude might have been different.

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It was the bloodiest day of battle in U.S. history.

No. It marked the failure of Lee's planned invasion of Pennsylvania, and his army was nearly destroyed.

The battle also had a further significance that would lead to Confederate defeat - it gave Lincoln the credibility to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. This meant that Britain and France could not aid the South without looking pro-slavery.

...Britain granting recognition to the Confederacy and sending military aid.

The last hope the Confederacy had that England and France would grant full recognition to them as being a sovereign nation vanished along with any material aid that would come from it. It also resulted in Lincoln having favorable footing from which to publish the Emancipation Proclamation.

After the Battle of the Second Bull Run, Lee changed his strategy and invaded the Maryland, giving the start to the offensive campaign that led to the Battle of Antietam.

The losses on both sides were so high that the battle was recorded as the bloodiest day of the Civil War.

After, it allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

Thomas Stonewall Jackson

Yes.

Zero. One Union soldier died the next day due to an accident.

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George McClellan (Union) and Robert E. Lee (Confederate).