What really happened at the Battle of Antietam? Why is the Battle of Antietam called 'The Bloodiest Day' of the Civil War?
Date Submitted: 03/01/2004 08:27:15
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 9 pages (2390 words)
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 9 pages (2390 words)
It all started Wednesday, September 3, 1862, four days after General Robert E. Lee's Confederate victory at the second Battle of Bull Run. Lee dispatched a letter to southern president Jefferson Davis. In this letter Lee announced his intention to carry the war onto enemy soil for the first time in the Eastern Theater. Lee hoped that a great confederate victory would encourage England and France to help the south win the war and he hoped that …
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…and here we lie."
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