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Lost Order and Antietam Tale In Maryland Campaign
The article recounts Lee's 1862 Maryland invasion and the Lost Order No. 191, Jackson at Harpers Ferry, and the Antietam battle. It notes McClellan's moves, Barbara Fritchie, Reno, and the high casualties, plus the campaign's political impact including emancipation timing. It cites Douglas, Strother, Palfrey, and Antietam site materials.
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Pralkersville
Maryland
Robert E. Lee
Marynd
Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Washington
National Capital
Pope
George McClellan
Eneral McClellan
West Virginia
Jackson
Northern Virginia
Potomac
White's Ford
Leesburg
Aryland
Stoneall Jackson
Henry K. Douglas
Stonewall
D. H. Hill
Amyd
Frederick
Confederte
Best's Grove
Longtreet
Jebn Stuart
South
Martinsburg
Harpers Ferry
Lafayette McLaws
Maryland Heights
John G. Walker
Loudoun Heights
Shenandoah
Barbara Fritchie
Fritchie
Ross
Presbyterian Church
West Second Street
Bentz Street
West Patrick Street
Fritchie Museum
Longstreet
Boonsboro
Hagerstown
Douglas
Middletown
Frederck
South Mountain
Hill
Pennsylvania
Army of the Potomac
George Brinton McClellan
David Strother
United States Army
Indiana
John M. Bloss
B. W. Mitchell
D. H. Jill
McClellan
Ninth
Fox
Turner's Gap
Reno
Fox's Gap
Boston
Museum of the Loyal Legion
Nevada
Burnside
Samuel Garland
Rutherford B. Hayes
United States
Turners Gap
Twenty-Third
Ohio Volunteers
Fox's
Crampton
McLaws
Antietam
Sharpsburg
Joseph Chapline
Eng
The
National Cemetery
Antietam Creek
Harpers Ferry Road
Hooker
Ewell
Miller Cornfield
East Woods
Hagerstown Pike
Dunker Church
Maryland Monument
Second Corps
Sedhwid
West Woods
Leopold Blumenburg
Bloody Lane
Burnside Bridge
A. P. Hill
Gettysburg
Pickett
Virginia
National Park Service
Lincoln
H. K. Douglas
Fredericksburg
F. W. Palfrey
Doust
Antietam National Battlefield
Library of Congress