On Sept. 17, 1862, Gen. George B. McClellan stopped Gen. Robert E. Lee's first Confederate invasion of the North at the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of warfare in American history. This narrow victory changed the course of the war.
Yet history has not been kind to McClellan. Politicians from the 1860s onward and countless historians have claimed he could have easily destroyed Lee's army during the campaign and ended the war in 1862, sparing the country another two and a half years of bloody conflict.
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