Our War: Days and Events in the Fight for the Union

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Read a free sample. Buy a Print Copy Online autographed! Just eight hours in, there were over 15, casualties. Three hours later, Union troops had pushed the Confederates back and over 5, men were either dead or injured.

The fighting was so gory Sunken Road earned a new name: As night fell, thousands of bodies littered the sprawling Antietam battlefield and both sides regrouped and claimed their dead and wounded. Just twelve hours of intense and often close-range fighting with muskets and cannons had resulted in around 23, casualties, including an estimated 3, dead. The next day, as Lee began the painstaking job of moving his ravaged troops back to Virginia, McClellan, surprisingly, did nothing.

Despite having the advantage, he allowed Lee to retreat without resistance.

He thought McClellan missed a great opportunity to kick the Army of Northern Virginia while they were down and potentially end the war. Military historians consider the Battle of Antietam a stalemate.

Even so, the Union claimed victory. And keeping Confederates in their southern box enabled President Lincoln to finally release his Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, They also ended any hope of France and Great Britain acknowledging the Confederacy and coming to their aid.

This further isolated the Confederacy and made it harder for them to re-supply their troops and citizens. There has never been a bloodier day in American military history than September 17, Perhaps the reality of the battle was best described by Union soldier Charles Goddard in a letter to his mother: Sources Lost Order, Lost Cause.

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