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/PICSOLUNION.LBM
SEPTEMBER 17 1862
On 5th September Lee's Confederate force struck.
They crossed the Potomac and invaded the North. As
soon as word reached McClellan, his Union army
marched North-West to protect the Union.
On 17th the battle of Antietam took place. 87,000
Union soldiers commanded by Major-General McClellan
attacked the Confederate invaders who numbered
some 40,000. The result of this, the most bloodiest
single day in the war with some 22,000 casualties.
In the end Lee's army was so weakened it had to
withdraw back to the South - a great relief to the
North.
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