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Description: A study of the battle, by Kevin S. Lacey.
Military History Online - The Battle of Antietam We Had the Most Brilliant Prospects Several years after the end of the Civil War, Confederate General James Longstreet, the commander of General Robert E. Lee's First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, still remembered the days following the defeat of John Pope's Army of Virginia at the Second Battle of Bull Run as the zenith of Confederate arms during the Civil War. Longstreet wrote that in the late summer of 1862 "we had the most brilliant prospects the Confederates ever had."[1] Longstreet's heady optimism was understandable. The recent series of military successes achieved by the Army of Northern Virginia beginning with the Seven Days and ending with the drubbing of John Pope's Army of Virginia at Second Manassas would have, under any circumstances, been impressive; but, the morale and political impact of Lee's victories were magnified far beyond their actual military significance because they stood in stark contrast to the seemingly unending series of military setbacks and defeats that had plagued the beleaguered Confederacy from the end of 1861 through the first half of 1862. Lee's campaigns had, quite literally, breathed new life into fading Southern hopes for independence.
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| Page title: | Military History Online - The Battle of Antietam |
| Keywords: | Battle of Antietam, Antietam, Burnside, McClellan, Sharpsburg, Maryland |
| Description: | An in-depth study of the Battle of Antietam |
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