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Maryland Campaign, US Civil War

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...