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U.S. Civil War History
U.S. Civil War History
1861 - Confederate General Sterling Price encircled a Union garrison at Lexington.
1862 - In Maryland, the Battle of Antietam took place. General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army were stopped by General George B. MeClellan and his numerically superior Union forces. By nightfall about 26,000 men were dead, wounded or missing. Lee began withdrawing to Virginia after dark on September 18.
| "A house divided against itself cannot stand." - Abraham Lincoln on June 16, 1858. |
