... Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee on about September 9, 1862, during the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War. A lost copy of this order was ...
the noted Civil War historian, observed that no general in the war “ was ever ...
A copy of the order having been lost, was recovered by Union soldiers of the 27th ...
He immediately moved his army in hopes of foiling Lee's battle plans. And when Lee heard a copy of Special Order 191 was missing, he knew ...
Lee disregarded Longstreet and maintained his order for a heavy
The ensuing Battle of Antietam, like Gettysburg a year later, was one of
In truth, Lee sent no definitive orders directing Ewell to pursue the enemy when the ... at army headquarters, he handed Ewell's request for reinforcements to Lee.
Early recounted the three-day battle, which raged from July 1 to July 3, 1863
of the 27th Indiana infantry regiment recovered a copy of Lee's Special Order 191 ...
At the Battle of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee made a mistake that doomed the hopes of the Confederate States of America to compel the United ...