History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 7: The Battle of Antietam

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🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 59 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 thwarted McClellan's plans to lay siege to the Confederate capitol of Richmond and tried to seize the momentum by crossing north into Maryland.

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1:19.1	Welcome everyone back to our series on the most important battles in the Civil War. We're now
1:28.8	looking at the Battle of Antietam. We're back with General McClellan who he makes a mountain out of
1:36.2	a molehill probably better than any other general we could ever imagine. He's constantly overestimating
1:42.9	troop strength of the Confederates. His idea of hope for the best plan for the worst, he
1:47.9	believes in, but he believes to a ridiculous extreme. There's a quote by Lincoln that I think
1:52.7	will kick off this discussion very well because it encapsulates a lot of the blunders that we're
1:57.2	going to see in this campaign. Lincoln remarked in the lead up to the Battle of Antietam that if
2:03.6	McClellan were miraculously given 100,000 reinforcements who advance on Richmond and keep
2:09.3	in mind at this point, he's practically on the doorstep of Richmond. McClellan would claim that
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