Sentence examples for Antietam from high-quality English sources.

• This changed after the Battle of Antietam.

• A Sharpsburg pilgrimage site for Civil War buffs, Antietam takes a cue from Gettysburg.

• At Antietam, on Saturday, the annual memorial will feature 23,000 candles, representing that battle’s casualties.

• As a boy, he’d painted the walls of the attic of his family’s house with a re-creation of the Battle of Antietam.

• He advanced to meet Lee along Antietam Creek at Sharpsburg.

• In the South the victory boosted morale after the near disaster of Antietam.

• The principal waterways are Conococheague, Antietam, and Conodoguinet creeks.

• Union troops stopped the Confederates at Antietam Creek, Maryland, in September.

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• At that time Lee had retreated from the North as a result of his defeat at Antietam.

• Then, on September 17, Union forces stopped the advancing Confederate armies at Antietam, Maryland.

• These were the Seven Days’ Battles and the Battles of Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg.

• McClellan’s left wing at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland, he was criticized for his ineffectiveness.

• Kimball's unit then went on to earn the nickname "The Gibraltar Brigade" for their assaults on the sunken road at Antietam.

• The Union victory at Antietam, slight though it was, gave President Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

• The Battle of Antietam was enough of a Union victory to warrant President Lincoln’s issuing his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.

• Finally, on September 17, 1862, his troops met the numerically superior forces of McClellan at the little creek of Antietam in Maryland.

Antietam sentence examples

• The aeronauts operated from naval vessels along the James River in July 1862 but did not take part in the Battle of Antietam in September.

• The first invasion had ended with the Battle of Antietam, and the second ended in Lee’s repulse at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (July 1–3, 1863).

• The Union name for the battle is derived from Antietam Creek, which flows south from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to the Potomac River near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

• In the Civil War he was in a number of actions in West Virginia, Virginia, and Tennessee-Georgia, most notably the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Antietam, the Chickamauga campaign, and the Shenandoah valley campaigns.