McClellan stopped Lee's invasion at the subsequent Battle of Antietam, but many military historians believe
Thus, in early September Lee's army entered Maryland east of the Blue
Robert E. Lee issued Special Order 191 during the Maryland campaign, before the Battle of Antietam. A copy of the order having been lost, was recovered by ...
The lost document that changed the course of American history: How Robert E. Lee's secret Civil War battle plans were found wrapped around ...
Its title read, “Special Order No.
Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson would get two-thirds of the troops to capture Harpers Ferry,
It pitted Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
[17] In his letter, professing to have no knowledge of how the order was lost,[18] ... No doubt Jackson did receive verbal instructions from General Lee to go to ...
of one of Lee's adjutants, and the speed with which it was in George McClellan's ...
This was a piece of intelligence few battle commanders are ever lucky enough to receive.