To: SunkenCiv
Actually, should be remember where 45,000 good southern men, kicked the dog sh== out of 85,000 Yankee’s.
3 posted on
10/11/2008 11:44:15 AM PDT by
org.whodat
( "the Whipped Dog Party" , what was formally the republicans.)
To: org.whodat
I guess that explains Lee’s retreat?
6 posted on
10/11/2008 11:49:52 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: org.whodat
I prefer to think of it as the Battle where one set of my grandparents killed the other set. Not in time to prevent me, of course.... ;o]
11 posted on
10/11/2008 11:56:11 AM PDT by
Monkey Face
(The Big Bang Theory: God spoke and BANG! it happened!)
To: org.whodat
It's generally agreed Antietam/Sharpsburg was inconclusive on the field, but forced the Confederates to retreat and was therefore strategically a Union victory. Not a complete victory, due to the incompetence of McClellan and Burnside, but enough of one to allow Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. This ended southern hopes of British intervention, and therefore for practical purposes ended their hopes of winning the war.
That's about as decisive a strategic victory as one could hope for.
32 posted on
10/11/2008 5:33:36 PM PDT by
Sherman Logan
(Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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