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English: General George B. McClellan at the Battle of Antietam

Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
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the lossesof his army by straggling, had defeated Leesplan of campaign. He was now compelledto retire across the Potomac, and he haltedon the Antietam only to secure the reunionof Jacksons corps with his army and a safepassage of the Potomac. Battle of Antietam. On the morningof the seventeenth of Sep-tember General McClellan attacked the Con-federate army in force, but it held its groundduring the day, both armies at nightfall occu-pying about the same positions they had heldin the morning. The Federal loss was twelvethousand four hundred and sixty-nine, includ-ing thirteen generals wounded, one mortally;that of the Confederates eight thousand sevenhundred and ninety, including three generalskilled, five wounded. The eighteenth passedquietly away, and that night Lee silentlywithdrew from his position and retreatedacross the Potomac. He retired up thevalley to Winchester. The Federal armymoved to the vicinity of Harpers Ferry, anddid not cross the Potomac until the secondof November,
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7i8 THE CIVIL WAR. Upon entering Virginia General McClellanmoved towards the Rappahannock, with thedesign of interposing his army between Leeand Richmond. General Lee at once leftthe valley where he had been detained by thenecessity of watching McClellan, and by arapid march to Warrenton, placed his armybetween Richmond and McClellan. TheFederal army continuing to advance, he fellback to Culpepper Court-house, and McClel-lan moved forward to the vicinity of Warren-

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