. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . he determined to withdraw from ^Maryland. (Jn the night ofthe 18th the retreat began and early the next morning theConfederate army had all safely recrossed the Potomac. The great mistake of the JSIaryland campaign from thestandpoint of the Confederate forces, thought Cieneral , was the division of Lees army, and he believed that ifLee had kept his forces together he would not have been forcedto abandon the campaign. At Antietam, he had less thanforty thoi
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . he determined to withdraw from ^Maryland. (Jn the night ofthe 18th the retreat began and early the next morning theConfederate army had all safely recrossed the Potomac. The great mistake of the JSIaryland campaign from thestandpoint of the Confederate forces, thought Cieneral , was the division of Lees army, and he believed that ifLee had kept his forces together he would not have been forcedto abandon the campaign. At Antietam, he had less thanforty men, who were in poor condition for l)attlewhile JNlcClellan had about eighty-seven thousand, most ofwhom were fresh and strong, though not more than sixtythousand were in action. The moral effect of the battle of Antietam was incalcul-ably great. It aroused the confidence of the Northern emboldened President liincohi to issue five days after itsclose the proclamation freeing the shnes in the seceded had written the proclamation long before, but it had laininactive in his desk at Washington. All
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