1862. he did carry the stone bridge later in the day, when it was defended by a full division, it is no injustice to say he ought to have carried it earlier, when held only by a single brigade. McClellan's plan of battle was simple and perfect, break the enemy's left, turn his right, and crush his centre. He succeeded in the first; Burnside failed him in the second; it was useless to essay the third, though an attack was made on the Confederate centre later in the day.

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Antietam was a Union victory, for Lee abandoned the field and retreated. Its moral effect was cheering, despite the disaster at Harper's Ferry; for Lee was obliged to postpone his scheme of Northern invasion, and the war was relegated back to Virginia. And, whatever may have been McClellan's faults and weaknesses, it is simple justice to award him great praise for so inspiriting Pope's worn-out and disheartened legions as to make them capable of fighting such a battle a fortnight after their BullRun experience. Certain wiseacres at home, who were eternally crying, "Why don't the army move?" blame McClellan for not following Lee pell-mell. What McClellan's army had been two weeks before the battle should be duly weighed against what Lee's army was after the battle, ere this point is adjudicated.

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