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Battle Of Antietam

Battle Of Antietam. By: Bennie Muldrew, Alexander Gooden, Curtlan Davis,Chris Fierbaugh. Date. September 17 1862 It Ended At 4:30. Summary Of Event. On September 16 Majgen b. McClellan confronted Lee’s army of Northern Virginia at Sharpsburg, Maryland. Key Players .

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Battle Of Antietam

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  1. Battle Of Antietam By: Bennie Muldrew, Alexander Gooden, Curtlan Davis,ChrisFierbaugh

  2. Date • September 17 1862 • It Ended At 4:30

  3. Summary Of Event • On September 16 Majgen b. McClellan confronted Lee’s army of Northern Virginia at Sharpsburg, Maryland.

  4. Key Players • The key players in the Battle of Antietam are, George B. McClellan, General Robert R. Lee, Ambrose E. Burnside, James Longstreet, General Joseph Hooker, General Thomas J. Jackson, Edwin Summer.

  5. Effect of The event • Four days after the battle of Antietam, which took place near Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, Captain Robert Gould Shaw of the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry wrote to his father: “Every battle makes me wish more and more that the war was over. It seems almost as if nothing could justify a battle like that of the 17th, and the horrors inseparable from it.” It was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 Union and Confederate soldiers killed or mortally wounded. Shaw had been in the thick of the fighting and his brigade had suffered 646 men killed, wounded, and missing. Like Shaw, many other soldiers who had lost friends in this battle wondered if anything could justify such slaughter.

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