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Crossroads of Freedom II The Battle on the Cornfield, wrote Hooker, where the slain lay in rows precisely as they stood in their ranks a few minutes before. Jackson and Lee also fed 3 divisions into the meat grinder.

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Crossroads of Freedom II

The Battle on the Cornfield, wrote Hooker, where the slain lay in rows precisely as they stood in their ranks a few minutes before. Jackson and Lee also fed 3 divisions into the meat grinder.

The flags were up & down several times a minute. The mental strain so great the whole landscape turned slightly red.

“The waste and carnage lay on the field. Smashed weapons, dead horses, bloody clothing, knapsacks and blanket rolls among the smell of rotting corpses, vomit and feces”, a soldier wrote in his diary the following morning.

NEW YORK TIMES “GREAT VICTORY!”

SEPTEMBER 19, 1862

Fred Douglas, “We shout for joy

that we live to record this righteous decree”.

The reading of the first Emancipation Proclamation

General Mc Clellan, on the far left, believed Antietam was his finest hour.