The Battle of Antietam

The American Civil War.

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[AUG351]

@TheSpillProductions They are the Berdan's Sharpshooters, the sharpshooters in the Civil War were different than today's sharpshooters, they fought in small regiments usually no larger than companies and attached to regular regiments for special deployment at a field general's order in a specific action. They fought usually in or close to the action and fought almost like skirmishers picking off people from a distance or fighting like regular troops in the middle of the battle.

[2012Steelerfan]

These videos are always interesting. Living in Richmond, VA I get to see so many of the places that were battlefields but it's hard to wrap the mind around how many people were slaughtered.

[CharmingLordSausage]

This from North and South?

[keithehlert]

it ain't over yall,it's just half time!

[AUG351]

@treehugger3615 That was later in the war during the Overland Campaign where he used allot of frontal attacks and superior numbers to try to overrun or push back Lee. At battles like Spotsylvania there he took thousands of casualties and was one of the bloodiest battles of the war with Union troops attacking confederate trenches in the mud and rain allot like in WW1. The same happened at Cold Harbor where he lead an assualt on Lee's trenches and got the name "the Butcher".

[treehugger3615]

@christof139 Wow that's new. Everything I heard from Grant was that he sucked. And that he only won due to the superior number of the Union forces.

[djmillka]

@AUG351 ty

[AUG351]

@djmillka Its from the North and the South tv series

[djmillka]

can someone tell me what movie is that??? ty

[Shafeone]

@MiniInloesteam But Lee DIDN'T have the army he had at Gettysburg. Not by half. They were exhausted, half-starved, often shoeless and in no condition for such long marches on Maryland's hard roads. A third of the men that crossed the Potomac with him simply melted away due to straggling. Lee never should have fought at Antietam, Outnumbered, back to a swollen river with no escape but one ford should he be broken. He lost 1/3 of his men for nothing. But for McClellen he would have lost.