Antietam In The Civil War Analysis

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The article “Antietam In The Civil War” by the Shmoop Team explains the Battle of Antietam, explaining the deaths, the battle plans, counters, and so on. The confederate generals were moving up to up to Tennessee, Kentucky, and Maryland to attempt an attack. With Lee marching to Pennsylvania, there was a pause because of communication. But, General Lee had a courier hold his plans but ended up dropping them and a Northerner picked them up and used them to find a large portion of Lee’s soldiers at Sharpsburg, Maryland. Also,General Mclellan was attacking General Robert E. Lee when he was moving to the Pennsylvania border. With Mclellan attacking, Lee sniffed him out and saved his outnumbered army. But, with a gruesome 5,000 dead and 20,000 wounded,
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