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"Those in whose common sense I rely inform me that we fought the struggle splendidly and this it was a masterpiece of art work. ...I feel I have done all that may be asked in double saving the united states. ...I feel some little delight in having, with a beaten & demoralized army, defeated Lee so utterly." (George McClellan) In Charles River Editors' Background for Kids series, your kids can find out about history's most important people and situations within an easy, engaging, and educational way. The concise but complete book could keep your kids' attention completely to the end. The bloodiest day in American background occurred on the 75th wedding anniversary of the putting your signature on of the Constitution. On Sept 17, 1862, Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia fought George McClellan's Union Army of the Potomac outside Sharpsburg along Antietam Creek. That day, almost 25,000 would become casualties, and Lee's army would barely survive preventing the much bigger Northern army. The fighting that morning started with savage fighting on the Confederate left flank near Dunker church, in a corn field and forests. The Confederates scarcely held the field in the north sector, but even still, Lee's army may have been preserved by the Northern army's incapability to cross the creek near "Burnside's Bridge". Ambrose Burnside had been given control of the "Right Wing" of the Army of the Potomac (the I Corps and IX Corps) in the beginning of the Maryland Marketing campaign for the Challenge of South Hill, but McClellan segregated the two corps at the Challenge of Antietam, placing them on complete opposite ends of the Union struggle lines. However, Burnside continuing to act as if he was a wing commander instead of a corps commander, so instead of purchasing the IX corps, he funneled requests through General Jacob D. Cox. This poor corporation added to the corps's hours-long delay in attacking and crossing what's now called "Burnside's Bridge" on the right flank of the Confederate lines. The delay allowed General A.P. Hill's Confederate department to reach the battlefield from Harpers Ferry in time to save Lee's right flank that day. Fearing that his army was terribly bloodied and figuring Lee got a lot more men than he have, McClellan refused to commit his reserves to continue the attacks. Your day finished in a tactical stalemate. Although the struggle was tactically a sketch, it resulted in forcing Lee's army out of Maryland and back into Virginia, making it a strategic success for the North and an opportune time for Chief executive Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in the rebellious says. Background for Kids: The Challenge of Antietam comprehensively addresses the preventing, analyzes the decisions made by the battle's most important leaders, and talks about the aftermath of the struggle and the legacies which were made and tarnished by the struggle.
