"Antietam – The Most Terrible Battle of the Age" Topic

""We are in the midst of the most terrible battle of the age," wrote General George McClellan to his wife in the early afternoon. McClellan, who had come to be known as grossly inaccurate when it came to estimations of pretty much everything, was dead on. Before the battle of Sharpsburg, along the winding Antietam Creek was even half over, it was the most terrible battle of the war.

"So far God has given us success but with many variations during the day," he continued, back to his less-than-accurate accounts.

By the time McClellan wrote his wife and to Washington, giving more or less the same story, the morning battles had ended with anything but a full success. Hooker's First Corps had attacked Stonewall Jackson's troops from the North Woods through The Cornfield and East Woods. But, even with the addition of Mansfield's Twelfth Corps, they could not hold the ground they took. The objective had been the ground around The Dunkard Church, which, if captured, would turn General Lee's flank. Some of Mansfield's men reached it, driving off Rebel batteries in the assault, but soon they were beaten back like their brethren…"

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