Battle of Antietam: Controversial Crossing on Burnside’s Bridge
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Description: Discussion of General Ambrose Burnside's order to cross Antietam Creek during the battle of Antietam.
Battle of Antietam: Controversial Crossing on Burnside's Bridge Battle of Antietam: Controversial Crossing on Burnside's Bridge Published Online: June 12, 2006 In 1951 Bruce Catton indicated in his book Mr. Lincoln's Army that Major General Ambrose Burnside deserved much of the blame for the incomplete Union victory at the Battle of Antietam. Throughout the 1862 Maryland campaign Burnside had commanded a wing composed of two corps — his own IX Corps and Major General Joseph Hooker's I Corps — in Major General George McClellan's Army of the Potomac. At Antietam, however, McClellan took Hooker's corps away from Burnside, posting the two halves of Burnside's wing at either end of the army. Catton observed that Burnside, 'getting a bit stuffy for once in his career, refused to yield his position as wing commander, forwarding McClellan's orders for the IX Corps to the nominal commander of that corps instead of implementing them directly. That led to delays and confusion, Catton concluded, causing the IX Corps to take much longer than expected to cross Antietam Creek and attack the right wing of Robert E. Lee's army.
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