What Happened In The Aftermath Of The Antietam Battle In The American Civil War?
The Antietam battle was the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War. It ended in a Union win nevertheless the Union army was not able to fully utilize the bounties of this victory. This battle had coerced General Lee and his Confederate soldiers to retreat back to Virginia. Nevertheless the leader of the Union army General George McClellan had an over-cautious approach towards the situation and for some illogical reason, he decided to wait for a period of 19 days to launch attack on the Confederate army again. This action of his enraged President Abraham Lincoln as according to the President, General McClellan should have followed the Confederate army and destroyed it to such an extent that would have made the Confederate army surrender. This led Abraham Lincoln to remove McCLellan from the position and instead hire anyone else to lead the Union army. As for the Confederate army, the Antietam battle meant the end of any hopes of foreign support and assistance as Great Britain and ot
