The Battle of Antietam

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The Battle of Antietam, fought during the early years of the Civil War, was significant for several reasons. t was the first battle fought on Northern soil, and it produced the largest amount of casualties in American history (23,000). This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the Battle of Antietam. It includes a brief history of the
battle as well as eyewitness accounts of the period.

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"General Lee's divisions, consisting of about 30,000 men, were under the command of his Generals Jackson, Walker, Longstreet, and Hood. While the army's morale was excellent, Lee knew they were tired from their earlier battles, and ill equipped to travel further northward. He
wrote to Confederate President Jefferson Davis: "The army," he wrote President Davis, "is not properly equipped for an invasion of an enemy's territory. It lacks much of the material of war, is feeble in transportation, the animals being much reduced, and the men are poorly provided with clothes, and, in thousands of instances, are destitute of shoes." (Steele 260)."

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