. Book of the Royal blue . ied by artillery and the Confed-erate line occupying the angle formed bythe Potomac and Antietam. ieneral-lack-sons forces occupied the left tlank, sup-ported by Ceneral -J. E. P. Stewart; (GeneralII. 11. lliil the immediate center, and Cen-eral Pongstreet the right tlank, supjiortedby (leneral .\. P. Hill. The struggle commenced on the after-. no: ITNKKK CHI KCH. (!.. n,r , M-1 t advance of them, near the Antietam river,(ieneral Richardsons division was posted,(ieneral Sykes division occujiied a positionon the left of the turnpike, protectingb
. Book of the Royal blue . ied by artillery and the Confed-erate line occupying the angle formed bythe Potomac and Antietam. ieneral-lack-sons forces occupied the left tlank, sup-ported by Ceneral -J. E. P. Stewart; (GeneralII. 11. lliil the immediate center, and Cen-eral Pongstreet the right tlank, supjiortedby (leneral .\. P. Hill. The struggle commenced on the after-. no: ITNKKK CHI KCH. (!.. n,r , M-1 t advance of them, near the Antietam river,(ieneral Richardsons division was posted,(ieneral Sykes division occujiied a positionon the left of the turnpike, protectingbridge .\o. li over the .tietani, whileopposite, but distant from bridge No. S,was (leneral Hurnsides cori)a. A generalinspection by (leneral McClellan resultedin Purnsides corps being moved nearer thebridge, occu[)ying the heights in the rear,with orders to guard against the ai)proachof the Confederates from Harpers Ferry,(leneral Lee had, on the l.)th, made aformidable display of his forces, exposinghis infantry in order to delay the fight aslong as possible, to receive continued during the Kith, inviting noon of the IHth. (leneral Mc( lellan directed(lenerals Hooker and Mansfield, supjiortedby Sumner and Franklin, to attack the (on-federate left, and Purnside simultaneouslyto attack their right, and upon the successof these movements to a
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