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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Didn’t the CSA win at Antietam?


20 posted on 07/05/2017 1:51:30 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: virgil

No.


26 posted on 07/05/2017 1:58:44 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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Antietam was a draw.

The sad part was the McClellan had (IIRC) a entire corps that had seen no action and all of Lee’s troops had seen action. A determined attack by the Union could have damaged Lee’s army so badly that it would have been incapable of further offensive operations.

I hesitate to say that the war would have ended with a year because the CSA still fielded armies elsewhere in the South - but the gutting of the Army of Northern Virginia and possible caputre of Richmond by McClellan would have been hard on the remainder of the South.


35 posted on 07/05/2017 2:42:14 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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