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Reconnoissances sent to the front discovered that the whole Confederate army had crossed the Potomac. The conduct of the battle on the left has given rise to several criticisms, among which the most prominent has been that Porter s corps, which lay in reserve, was not put in at the same time with the Ninth Corps. It has been said that some of them were engaged or in support of the cavalry and artillery at the centre. This does not appear to have been so to any important extent, for no active fi...ghting was going on elsewhere after Franklin s corps relieved Sumner s about noon. McClellan s reports do not urge this. He answered the criticism by saying that he did not think it prudent to divest the centre of all reserve troops. No doubt a single strong division, marching beyond the left flank of the Ninth Corps, would have so occupied A. P. Hill s division that our move ment into Sharpsburg could not have been checked, and, assisted by the advance of Sumner and Franklin on the right, would apparently have made certain the complete rout of Lee.
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