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Key Battles of the Civil War

Episode 7: The Battle of Antietam

Key Battles of the Civil War

Key Battles of the Civil War

Society & Culture

4.7696 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The Battle of Antietam—an 1862 clash between Robert E. lee's Army of Northern Virginian and George McClellan's Army of the Potomac—was the deadliest one-day battle in American history, with a total of 22,717 dead, wounded or missing. It came after Lee...

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The Civil War was the most important event in American history.

0:59.7

That's because it decided what kind of nation America would be

1:02.9

and whether or not the promise of universal liberty would really be fulfilled.

1:07.2

And what decided the outcome of the Civil War was its battles.

1:13.6

Welcome to the key battles in the Civil War podcast. Welcome everyone, back to our series on the most important battles in the Civil War.

1:31.5

We're now looking at the Battle of Antietam.

1:34.4

We're back with General McClellan, who he makes a mountain out of a molehill,

1:40.0

probably better than any other general we could ever imagine.

1:44.0

He's constantly overestimating troop strength of the Confederates.

1:48.2

His idea of hope for the best, plan for the worst, he believes in, but he believes to a ridiculous extreme.

1:53.9

And there's a quote by Lincoln that I think will kick off this discussion very well

1:58.0

because it encapsulates a lot of the blunders that we're going to see in this campaign.

2:02.5

Lincoln remarked in the lead-up to the Battle of Antietam that if McClellan were miraculously

2:08.2

given 100,000 reinforcements to advance on Richmond, and keep in mind at this point, he's practically

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