Antietam summary

So, basically, the battle of Antietam went like this: On September 17, 1862, Robert e. lee's and George b. mcClellan's forces clashed near sharpsburg, Maryland, near Antietam creek. In the morning, the union forces were able to capture a cornfield and the surrounding forests because of the large numbuer of soldiers they had. Later, the confederacy recaptured the west woods, the western section of the forested area. The fight then moved to the sunken road, where the confederate troops were hidden in the depression in the road. The union was only able to take the road because they just kept sending row after row of people when one row of soldiers was killed. The sunken road earned the title, "the bloody lane." later that day, the union 9th corps under general Ambrose burnside was able to capture a rohrbach bridge, now known as burnside's bridge, and pushed far into confederate territory to capture sharpsburg. However, confederate general a.p. hill's division came 17 miles from harpers ferry to rescue the confederates. Ther pushed back burnsides men all the way back to the bridge. This ended the battle of Antietam. A few weeks later, Lincoln came to Antietam to try to get McClellan to move his troops and pursue lee, but McClellan did not and was fired and replaced by Ambrose burnside. The battle of Antietam could have ended the civil war, but only ended Robert e. lee's invasion of the north.