. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE CROSSING AFTER ANTIETAM haste from Wasliington, reached McClellans tent at Rectortown, and handed him Stantons order reliev-ing him from command. IJnrnside was appointed his successor, and at the moment was witli him in tlietent. Without a change of countenance, McCieihin handed him the despatch, with the words: Well, Burn-side, you are to command the army. Wliate\er may have been McClellans fault, the moment chosen forhis removal was most inopportune and imgracious. His last advance ii]jon Lee was excellently planned, andhe ha
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE CROSSING AFTER ANTIETAM haste from Wasliington, reached McClellans tent at Rectortown, and handed him Stantons order reliev-ing him from command. IJnrnside was appointed his successor, and at the moment was witli him in tlietent. Without a change of countenance, McCieihin handed him the despatch, with the words: Well, Burn-side, you are to command the army. Wliate\er may have been McClellans fault, the moment chosen forhis removal was most inopportune and imgracious. His last advance ii]jon Lee was excellently planned, andhe had begun to execute it with great vigor—the van of the army having reached Warrenton on Novem-ber 7th, opposed only by half of Lees army at Culpeper, while demonstrations across the gaps of the BlueRidge compelled the retention of Jackson with the other half in the Shenandoah Valley. Never before hadthe Federal military prospect been brighter than at that ANTIETAM, OR SHARPSBURG At Sharpsburg (Antietam) was sprung the keystone of the arch uponwhich the Confederate cause rested.—James Longstreet, , in ■liatths and Leaders of the Civil War. A BATTLE remarkable in its actualities but more won-derful in its possibilities was that of Antietam, with thepreceding capture of Harj^ers Ferry and the other interest-ing events that marked the invasion of ^Maryland by GeneralLee. It was one of the bloodiest and the most picturesqueconflicts of the Civil War, and while it was not all that tlieNorth was demanding and not all that many military criticsthink it might have been, it enabled President Lincoln to feelthat he could with some assurance issue, as he did, his Eman-cipation Proclamation. Lees army, lifty thousand strong, had crossed the Poto-mac at Leeshiug and had concentrated around Frederick, thescene of the Barbara Frietchie legend, only forty milesfrom Washington. AVhen it became known that Lee. elatedby his vi
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