Bloody Lane at Antietam | Animated Battle Map

Robert E. Lee had just been put in command of the Army of Northern Virginia in the summer of 1862 and after battering George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac down the Peninsula and away from the gates of Richmond, he turned his attention north. His offensive took him to the old Manassas Battlefield where he defeated a Union Army in August and with momentum on his side, he pushed on into Maryland and started his first invasion of the North. The two massive armies met along the Antietam Creek near the town of Sharpsburg Maryland and the result would be the bloodiest single day in American History.

The engagement began on the Confederate left around the Dunker Church, Miller’s Cornfield, and the West Woods at about 5:15 AM. As that fight began to phase out, the Union were concentrating their forces on the Confederate center, held by division commander Daniel Harvey Hill. However, Hill had sent two of his brigades to reinforce the Confederate left during the morning’s fight, that under Alfred Colquitt and Duncan McRae. Both had been bloodied in the fight for the cornfield. For the moment, that left Hill with only the brigades of Robert Rhodes and George B. Anderson to guard the Sunken Road, the road itself was lower than the surrounding area because of heavy use and erosion, which made it a great defensive location.

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