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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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To: Sherman Logan

Didn’t realize there was an argument as to what happened.


33 posted on 10/11/2008 5:36:06 PM PDT by org.whodat ( "the Whipped Dog Party" , what was formally the republicans.)
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