[DOC] [TLE] Three Cigars A story of Private Barton Mitchell and the Battle of ... [PAR] President Lincoln was looking for a big Union victory so that he could issue his ... 
three cigars wrapped in battle plans for General Robert E. Lee's Confederate 
army! ... must have been used by one of his staff officers to wrap his cigars, which 
fell ... those cigars that day, Lee's army would have moved farther into Maryland,
... [DOC] [TLE] Civil War: Robert E. Lee's secret Special Orders No 191 found by ... [PAR] Sep 15, 2012 ... Robert E. Lee's detailed battle plans discovered by Union troops under a ... in 
Frederick, Maryland is a two-page document from Robert E. Lee ... 191, detailing 
the his plans for an invasion of enemy territory that ... After reading the top-secret 
order, one recipient sewed his copy into his coat ..... Under wraps! [DOC] [TLE] Invasion orders found wrapped around cigars in field led to ... - Photo [PAR] Sep 15, 2012 ... Robert E. Lee's detailed invasion orders, wrapped around a few cigars, 
accidentally fell in a farm field and were discovered by Union ... Dead 
Confederate soldiers in a ditch after the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Md. 
... document detailed the Southern commander's audacious plans for an invasion 
of... [DOC] [TLE] The Maryland Campaign of 1862 - Civil War Trust [PAR] Inside the nation's capital one Union soldier, reflecting the mood of many in the 
army, ... On September 4, advance elements of the army crossed the Potomac 
into ... But Lee gave Lincoln no respite and the Confederate invasion of Maryland 
forced him ... The Confederate had further divided his army after leaving 
Frederick,... [DOC] [TLE] Lee's Lost Order - The New York Times [PAR] Sep 12, 2012 ... He had concentrated his army at Frederick, Md., about 40 miles northwest of ... 
And yet, events in the days leading up to it helped level the field for the Union, 
which ... Lee reasoned that his army should first travel west, into the northern ... 
Library of CongressConfederate dead after the Battle of Antietam. [DOC] [TLE] washingtonpost.com: 'And the Slain Lay in Rows' [PAR] Jul 30, 1995 ... More than a million and a half tourists cram into Gettysburg every ... cigars and 
accidentally dropped it in a field near Frederick, where a ... He pondered this for 
18 hours, then sent his army after Lee. ... "The day before the battle, the soldiers 
came around and said, You ... And the Cornfield changes hands! [DOC] [TLE] morrisonhistory / Antietam, Fredericksburg - PBworks [PAR] The battle took place on Wednesday, September 17,1862, just 18 days after the 
... E. Lee positioned his troops in Antietam valley, near Sharpsburg, Md. Jackson, 
... McCellan was very cautious, for he believed the Confederates were on his 
front in .... His plans fell into Union hands, and the Union army massed against 
him... [DOC] [TLE] project by Nick Cunningham on Prezi [PAR] Jan 4, 2013 ... He felt such a move would disrupt the Union Army's plans for the ... In mid-
September 1862, after the loss at Second Manassas/Bull Run, ... obtained a copy 
of the Confederate battle plan--Lee's Special Order No. 191--that had been found 
wrapping three cigars. .... I mostly used Wikipedia for the research [DOC] [TLE] [30.0] September 1862 (1): Will Send You Trophies - Vectors [PAR] Aug 1, 2015 ... On Tuesday, 2 September 1862, the full impact of the Union defeat at ... the 
weapons and ammunition would not fall into Confederate hands, ... The 
President said of McClellan: "We must use the tools we have. ... McClellan 
quickly moved to put things in order, just as he had after the first battle of Bull Run
,... [DOC] [TLE] Intelligence in the Civil War (PDF) - NC Museum of History [PAR] Union intelligence records were kept sealed in the National Archives until ... 
Henry Thomas Harrison, for example, was a Confederate spy whose ... battlefield
, but on a battle of wits.

Question: At Frederick, MD. 4 days before this battle, Lee's plan fell into Union hands after it was used to wrap cigars
Answer: Antietam