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Maryland Campaign
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Maryland Campaign
The
Maryland Campaign
—or
Antietam Campaign
—occurred September 4–20, 1862, during the
American Civil War
.
Confederate
Gen.
Robert E. Lee
's first invasion of the
North
was repulsed by the
Army of the Potomac
under
Maj. Gen.
George B. McClellan
, who moved to intercept Lee and his
Army of Northern Virginia
and eventually attacked it near
Sharpsburg, Maryland
. The resulting
Battle of Antietam
was the bloodiest single-day battle in
American history
and is widely considered one of the major
turning points
of the war.
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