The battle of civil war
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Battle of the Antietam
Known as the battle of sharpsburg, Fought on sept.17 ,1862. Part of the Maryland camp was the first major battle in the American civil war to take place on union soil. At dawn on sept.17 Maj. Gen. Joseph hooker's corps mounted a powerful assault on lee's left flank. Attacks and counter attacks swept across millers cornfield . Though McClellan failed to utlilize his numerical superiority to crush lee's army, he was able to check the confederate advance into the north .
Northern and southern armies struggled for possession of the miller farm cornfield during the civil war . For three hours, the battle lines swept back and forth across the land. More lives would be lost on sept. 17,1862 than on any other day in the nations history.
23,000 solders were killed, wounded or missing after twelve hours of savage combat on sept. 17,1862 . The battle of the Antietam ended the confederate army of northern viginia's first invasion into the north and led to Abraham Lincoln's issuance of the preliminary emancipation proclamation