The Battle of Antietam just outside of Sharpsburg Maryland, was a one-day battle between 41,000 Confederate soldiers under the command of General Robert E. Lee and 87,000 Union soldiers commanded by General George B. McClellan. The stage was set when Lee undertook an invasion of the North in the late summer of 1862. (A Soldiers View by Col G. F. R. Henderson c1958) The Battle of Antietam was one of the bloodiest battle in history. In such an important battle men stick out for their heroic actions--one man inparticular, General Robert E. Lee. Robert E. Lee had a tremendous effect on the battle of Antietam.
General Robert E. Lee was born January 19, 1807, at Stratford Hall, at a place called “Big House” (Virginia’s General by Albert Marrin pg 7 c1994) of his family’s plantation located on the Potomac River in Westmoreland County, Virginia. (Virginia’s General by Albert Marrin pg 7 c1994). Robert E. Lee’s fater was known as “Light Horse Harry” he was a cavalry officer, a friend of George Washington, and a hero in the War of Independence. His mother, Ann Carter, was a third generation daughter of Carters, perhaps one of the wealthiest of all plantation dynasties of Virginia. (Robert E. Lee by Peter Earle pg 20
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It is for you to decide your destiny freely and without constraint. The battle opened at a damp, murky dawn on the 17th when Union artillery on the bluffs beyond Antietam Creek began murderous fire on Jackson’s lines near Dunker Church. Lee and his men successfully crossed the Potomac River with little trouble. Hill’s division, and Longstreets two divisions. About 450 Georgian sharpshooters took up positions behind trees and boulders on a steep wooded bluff some 100 feet high and overlooking the Lower Bridge. Walker to give Jackson two brigades of his division. Then General Walker’s division would recross the Potomac and enter the town from the Virginia side. Before Lee could do this he would have to deal with two Federal outposts that stood virtually astride his intended supply route in the Valley. He directed Capatin Cater to move his battery to defend the ridge about three quarters miles north west of Sharpsburg.
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