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was one of the bloodiest battles in the Civil War. It took place on September 17, 1862 in Maryland. It was at once the climax and the end of the first Confederate invasion of the North. It happened between the U.S. Army of the Potomac under Gen. George B. McCl ....

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.... last Confederate division, that had been left at Harper’s Ferry to supervise the surrender of the garrison, was approching the battlefield. They came upon the flank of the Union forces and drove them back. At the end Confederate generals urged Robert E. Lee to retreat, but he refused. At dawn, on the 18th, the army was still there inviting attack. Although more then 10,000 additional Union troops reached the battlefield McClellan made no move. Lee had had read McClellan’s mind, he also knew his own men. He knew that his soldiers’ prestige and morale would be strengthened if they believed that the Army of Northern Virginia could never be ....