Antietam

Donald R. Jermann’s Civil War history book “describes the impact of the discovery of this lost order on the pivotal Battle of Antietam” ( Book News Inc. ). On September 13, 1862, Union forces recovered a copy of Confederate battle plan Special Order 191, detailing General Robert E. Lee’s planned Northern invasion. “If I can’t beat Bobby Lee with this piece of paper, I will be willing to go home,” said General George B. McClellan, commander of the Union’s Army of the Potomac, upon reading the doc