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Confederate forces under General Lee were caught by General McClellan near Sharpsburg, Maryland. This battle proved to be the bloodiest day of the war; 2,108 Union soldiers were killed and 9,549 wounded -- 2,700 Confederates were killed and 9,029 wounded.
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In the aftermath of the Union strategical success at Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln announces that the Emancipation Proclamation will take effect of Jan. 1, 1863
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The entire Army of the Potomac is now in Falmouth. The other pontoon train leaves Washington. Longstreet's men begin to arrive in Fredericksburg. Burnside's window of opportunity has slammed shut.
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Confederate sniper fire delays completion of Federal pontoon bridges.
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Federal Infantry cross river in boats and force Confederates out of Fredericksburg.
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Urban Combat
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Sumners Right Grand Division crossed the Mississippi River
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Pelham prevents main Federal attack with only one gun on Federal's flank.
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Meade renews his attack, breaching A.P. Hill's line through a marshy gap.
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Gibbon attacks in support of Meade, capturing railroad.
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Gibbon retreats before Confederate reinforcements.
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Advancing Federal pickets precipitate a vicious counterattack form Law' Confederate brigade.
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Armies remained in position
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Burnside withdrew his army, ending another failed Union campaign in the Eastern Theater.
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Burnside ordered his beaten army back across the Rappahannock.The Union had lost 13,000 soldiers in a battle in which the dreadful carnage was matched only by its futility. Federal morale plummeted, and Burnside was swiftly relieved of his command. By contrast, the morale of the Confederacy reached a peak. Their casualties had been considerably lighter than the Union's, totaling only 5,000. Lee's substantial victory at Fredericksburg, won with relative ease, increased the already buoyant confide
