#196 ANTIETAM (Part the Eleventh)

The Civil War & Reconstruction

Richard Youngdahl

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🗓️ 22 May 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In which we look at Round 1 in the fight for the Sunken Road, aka Bloody Lane, at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to episode number 196 of our Civil War
0:29.8	Podcast. My name is Rich. And I'm Tracy. Hello y'all. Thanks for tuning into the podcast.
0:36.8	As y'all recall over the last two episodes we've looked at the last of the major fighting
0:41.6	on the northern end of the battlefield at Antietam. With the route of Settwick's division in the
0:46.8	West Woods and the loss of Green's foothold near the Dunker Church, the federal effort to smash
0:52.5	the Confederate left came to a close. Now the focus of the fighting would shift toward the center of
0:58.4	Robert E. Lee's line where the rebel infantry held a strong position along a sunken farm lane.
1:04.9	As you guys know, since we've mentioned it several times, but when second corps commander Edwin
1:11.6	Bull Sumner took his lead division, commanded by John Settwick, out of the east woods and straight
1:18.0	across the battlefield toward the west woods, Sumner's second division under Brigadier General
1:24.1	William H. French was still about 20 minutes away. Evidently, Bull Sumner was in such a hurry
1:31.4	that he gave no thought to waiting for French. Nor did Sumner even leave a staff officer behind
1:37.2	in the east woods with orders for him. And so when William French reached the east woods about a
1:43.4	quarter after nine that morning, he could find no sign of Sumner or Settwick. Once Settwick's troops
1:50.7	had crossed the ridge on which the Hagerstown Turnpike ran and entered the west woods beyond,
1:56.4	they were out of French's line of sight. Although the noise about on that direction
2:02.1	must have made a plane that someone was having a pretty rough time of it over in the distant wood lot,
2:07.7	French decided to go off in a different direction. One that would take him into action about three
2:14.0	quarters of a mile southeast of where Settwick's division was meeting with disaster in the west woods.
2:21.5	As French surveyed the situation, the only federals then inside were greens troops over
2:27.1	near the Dunker Church, and so about 930 he decided to take his division and position it on
2:32.9	Green's left. Meanwhile, over on the other side of the lines, as French began moving his
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