Battles for the Union Comprising Descriptions of Many of the Most Stubbornly Co
Battles for the Union Comprising Descriptions of Many of the Most Stubbornly Co
Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905
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— Burnside Takes the Bridge. — Union Troops Carry the Hill and are Driven Back. — McClellan Sends Aid. — A Moment when Events Hang in the Balance. — " The Bridge ! — Always the Bridge !" — McClellan 's Star in the Ascendant. THE dawn of Septeml^er seventeenth, 1862, witnessed tlie opening scene of one of the bloodiest battles of our civil war. For two days previous to that time the Confederate army, under Lee, liad been concen- trating on the low range of hills near Antietam Creek and in the im...mediate vicinity of the little town of Sharpsburg. General Burnside on the fourteenth had carried Turner's Gap and General Franklin had occupied Crampton's Gap on the same day, thus obtaining pos- session of the mountain range and its gates into the valley ; the corps of Sumner, Hooker, and Mansfield had been ordered to follow the Confederate army, re- tiring in the direction of Sharpsburg. The forces of the enemy, under cover of a mass of woods, were dis- posed in two lines six miles long, having Antietam creek in their front.
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