[DOC] [TLE] Battle of Antietam - Wikipedia [PAR] The Battle of Antietam /ntitm/, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, 
particularly in the South, was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, 
Maryland and Antietam Creek as ... After pursuing the Confederate general 
Robert E. Lee into Maryland, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan of the Union Army 
launched... [DOC] [TLE] The Maryland Campaign of 1862 - Civil War Trust [PAR] Historian and author Scott Hartwig describes Robert E. Lee's 1862 Maryland 
Campaign ... Army of the Potomac, was soundly thrashed in the Second Battle of 
Manassas. ... Lincoln understood that the army had lost confidence in Pope and 
he ... As one of his soldiers put it, the effect of this man's presence upon the Army 
of... [DOC] [TLE] McClellan at Antietam - Civil War Trust [PAR] In all his months as army commander, Major General George Brinton ... that on 
September 17, 1862, more errors were committed by the Union commander than 
in ... of Antietam Creek, General Robert E. Lee challenged McClellan to attack 
him. ... General McClellan lost control of the battle and fell captive to his 
delusions... [DOC] [TLE] Robert E. Lee | HistoryNet [PAR] Facts & information about Robert E. Lee, a confederate Civil War General during 
the American Civil War ... Breveted three times for gallantry in Mexico, Lee 
crossed the nearly ... In the final battle, Malvern Hill, Lee threw his men in a series 
of costly .... When he led Confederate forces into Maryland in September 1862, in 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Maryland Campaign and Battle of Antietam - Encyclopedia Virginia [PAR] Sep 13, 2012 ... The Maryland Campaign, which culminated in the Battle of Antietam (fought ... in 
the summer of 1862, Confederate general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern ... 
While pulling back into Virginia, Lee managed to foil Union general ... McClellan 
subsequently lost his job, but U.S. president Abraham Lincoln still... [DOC] [TLE] Why was the Confederacy Defeated? | History Today [PAR] On 10 April 1865, General Robert E. Lee, having just surrendered to General 
Grant at Appomattox, wrote a farewell address to his soldiers. ... According to Lee
, the Confederacy lost the American Civil War not because it fought badly but ... 
had Lee's battle orders not fallen into Union hands in Maryland in September 
1862? [DOC] [TLE] Lesson 4 [PAR] Yet Lincoln could not allow his troops to starve or surrender and risk showing ... 
In August 1862, Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had defeated the ... 
The battle began early on the morning of September 17 when Union troops ... 
Lee lost a quarter of his army; the survivors headed back to Virginia the next night
. [DOC] [TLE] Antietam Battle Map US Civil War Sharpsburg Maryland 1862 [PAR] Antietam Battle of the American Civil War Major General George B. ... while 
McClellan sent in less than three-quarters of his army, enabling Lee to fight the 
Federals ... JOE RYAN'S CIVIL WAR BATTLEWALKS: ANTIETAM AND LEE'S 
LOST ORDER ... Of the nearly 70,000 Federal troops actually engaged in the 
battle, nearly... [DOC] [TLE] Civil War Timeline - Gettysburg National Military Park (U.S. National ... [PAR] The Union Army under General Nathaniel Lyon, attack Confederate troops and 
state ... The lost of this southern fort on the Tennessee River opened the door to 
Union control of the river. ... September 17, 1862- The Battle of Antietam (or 
Sharpsburg), Maryland, the bloodiest ... At Gettysburg, Lee begins his retreat to 
Virginia. [DOC] [TLE] Making Sense of Robert E. Lee | History | Smithsonian [PAR] In the excerpt that follows, the general masses his troops for a battle over three .... 
The engagements of the Civil War shape up more as bloody muddles than as .... 
to Little Round Top, nearly three-quarters of a mile south of where Lee thought it 
was. ..... Lee was fighting a losing battle from the beginning, the Union had much
... [DOC] [TLE] Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and ... [PAR] The opposing forces at Corinth, Miss. , October 3d and 4th , 1862 . ... I

Question: Robert E. Lee lost nearly a quarter of his troops in this bloody Maryland battle of 1862
Answer: Antietam (or Sharpsburg)