Antietam In The Civil War

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I summerised Antietam in the civil war from http://www.shmoop.com/civil-war/antietam-battle.html. In Sharpsburg, Maryland on september 17, 1862 the south planed to take back stolen territory and threaten Washington D.C. General Lee planned to do two things in maryland. Take over railroads going into D.C. cutting their supplies and to gather people who favored the confederacy. If he would succeed then General Lee planned to move on to pennsylvania and force Lincoln to stop his war efforts. General Lee moved swiftly through maryland but stopped to make sure he could communicate with Virginia. Because of this he told part of his troops to take Harper’s Ferry and he knew Mcclellan would probably wouldn’t know about the it, and if he found out

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