Kamis, 31 Agustus 2017

‘As bad as can be’

For a couple of days after fighting on South Mountain in Maryland in September 1862, skirmishes and artillery fire punctuated the efforts of Robert E. Lee and George McClellan to regroup their armies. Lee turned his attention to his original plan to invade Pennsylvania, and waited at the village of Sharpsburg, Md., for Thomas “Stonewall” …

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