When Robert E. Lee's victorious Confederate Army invaded Maryland in September 1862 the survival of the United States lay in the balance.
Abraham Lincoln turned to George McClellan to rally the defeated Federal Armies and save the Union. A lost order wrapped around 3 cigars altered the course of history and led to the brutal deadly Battle of Antietam. The pivotal day that changed the Civil War from a fight to save the union to a fight to free the slaves.
History comes alive as over 12,000 Civil War Reenactors stage epic scale historically accurate engagements that are legendary in the annuals of military history - The Cornfield, Bloody Lane, and AP Hill's savage counter attack on Ambrose Burnside's corps that saved Lee's army from annihilation and prolonged the struggle that would bleed the country another 2 and 1/2 years and kill over 6000,000 Americans.
Pulitzer Prize winning historian James McPherson PHD calls Antietam "The crossroads of freedom". He explains why Antietam and not Gettysburg is the pivotal and decisive battle of the war.
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