On september 16, 1862, Major General George B. McClellan came across Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army at Sharpsburg, Maryland. Lee was hoping to keep the momentum going by invading the North and taking the offensive after a couple of wins in Virginia. The morning after they first encountered each other is when the fighting really took place, starting with a powerful assault on Lee’s left flank led by Major General Joseph Hooker’s Union corps. That was just beginning, for the rest of the morning would follow the same routine, with vicious attacks sweeping back and forth from both sides on Miller’s cornfield and the West Woods. Despite the intense assaults being launched from both sides, neither side gained an advantage. Meanwhile, during the center of the battlefield, the Union was having more luck. After multiple terrible assaults to the Confederate center, the Union took over the key defensive position. The awful struggle would even give the area a name, the Bloody
On september 16, 1862, Major General George B. McClellan came across Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army at Sharpsburg, Maryland. Lee was hoping to keep the momentum going by invading the North and taking the offensive after a couple of wins in Virginia. The morning after they first encountered each other is when the fighting really took place, starting with a powerful assault on Lee’s left flank led by Major General Joseph Hooker’s Union corps. That was just beginning, for the rest of the morning would follow the same routine, with vicious attacks sweeping back and forth from both sides on Miller’s cornfield and the West Woods. Despite the intense assaults being launched from both sides, neither side gained an advantage. Meanwhile, during the center of the battlefield, the Union was having more luck. After multiple terrible assaults to the Confederate center, the Union took over the key defensive position. The awful struggle would even give the area a name, the Bloody