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The Bloody Cornfield
Site of one of the most savage encounters at the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) in the US Civil War, Sept. 16-17, 1862. Elements of the opposing sides were firing at near point-blank range in a field of standing corn (i.e., maize, in US usage). Antietam is pronounced an-TEE-tum, btw.
Kind of a contrast to the peaceful Maryland countryside today. The site is now a US historic park.
Kind of a contrast to the peaceful Maryland countryside today. The site is now a US historic park.
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Before we visited I hadn't realized how pivotal Antietam actually was. Because McClellan managed not to lose, Lincoln could issue the Emancipation Proclamation and thereby turn the war into a crusade against slavery. This forestalled any reasonable chance of intervention by France and Britain on the South's behalf.
It did, for the time being, thwart Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania; but by knowing Lee's disposition of forces beforehand, because of the orders lost by a careless Confederate courier, McClellan had been in a position to completely crush Lee's army. That didn't happen, and Lee, of course, tried again a year later. People speculate about how the South could have won the war (and alternate history writer Harry Turtledove has a whole book series based on a southern victory because the orders _weren't_ lost), but speculation about how the North could have won sooner is less popular!
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