Battles of the Civil War
Michael Falconer
Battle of Antietam
September 17,1862 the battle of Antietam emerged. It occurred in Washington country near Sharpsburg, Maryland. After general Robert E. lee was declared in the war there were attacks against his army.On September 16, 1862, Maj McClellan and his Union Army of the Potomac confronted Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia at Sharpsburg, Maryland. At dawn on September 17, Maj. General Joseph Hooker’s Union corps unleashed a assault on Lee’s left flank that began the Battle of Antietam, and the single bloodiest day in American military history. Repeated Union attacks, and equally vicious Confederate counterattacks, swept back and forth across Miller’s cornfield and the West Woods.
Battle of Gettysburg
Confederate General Robert E. Lee concentrated his army around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania upon the approach of Union Gen. George G. Meade’s forces. On July 1, Confederates drove Union defenders through Gettysburg to Cemetery Hill. The next day Lee struck the flanks of the Union line resulting in severe fighting at Devils Den Little Round Top the Wheatfield Peach Orchard Culp’s Hill and East Cemetery Hill. Southerners gained ground but failed to dislodge the Union host. On the morning of July 3rd, fighting raged at Culp’s Hill with the Union regaining its lost ground. That afternoon after a massive artillery bombardment Lee attacked the Union center on Cemetery Ridge and was repulsed with heavy losses in what is known as Pickett’s Charge. Lee's second invasion of the North had failed.