A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . y on the Federal side. All the troops at hand, about eighty-five thousand in nuni- THE EAST IN 1862. 377 ber, were placed under McClellans command, and a rapidpursuit began. At Harpers Ferry was a Union garrisonof eleven thou-sand at-tacked thatpost, forced itto surrenderwith its garri-son, and hur-ried back toLees armybefore McClel-lan could comeup. South Moun-tain and An-tietam, — Thefirst conflicttook place atSouth Moun-tain, where the Confederate rear wasdriven from the passes. The twoarmies met on Sep
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . y on the Federal side. All the troops at hand, about eighty-five thousand in nuni- THE EAST IN 1862. 377 ber, were placed under McClellans command, and a rapidpursuit began. At Harpers Ferry was a Union garrisonof eleven thou-sand at-tacked thatpost, forced itto surrenderwith its garri-son, and hur-ried back toLees armybefore McClel-lan could comeup. South Moun-tain and An-tietam, — Thefirst conflicttook place atSouth Moun-tain, where the Confederate rear wasdriven from the passes. The twoarmies met on September 16 at An-tietam, on the Potomac north of Har-pers Ferry. A days delay in the attack enabled Jackson to come up, but Lee still had littlemore than fifty thousand men against the much greaterforce of his opponent. The battle was fought on the was a severe conflict. The Confederates were on thedefensive, and on ground of their own choosing. The re-sult was that neither side was victorious, though each sidelost about thirteen thousand men. But Lees advance to. Battle-fields of VraoiNiA,Maryland, and Pennsylva-nia. 378 THE CIVIL WAR. the north was checked, and he fell back across thePotomac. McClellan Removed.—McClellan was so slow in follow-ing as to cause great dissatisfaction among the people of theNorth. This feeling was shared by the government, and inNovember McClellan was removed from his command andreplaced by General Burnside, who had proved himself abrave and able commander. Unfortunately for him, how-ever, he was influenced by the severe criticisms of McClel-lans inactivity and resolved to show himself more active. The Battle of Fredericksburg-,—He marched hastily toFredericksburg, hoping to reach there in advance of Lee, ft
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