#194 ANTIETAM (Part the Ninth)

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#194 ANTIETAM (Part the Ninth)

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May 8, 2017

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In which we look at the ill-fated attack into the West Woods by John Sedgwick's division of Sumner's Second Corps at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862.

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May 8, 2017

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#194 ANTIETAM (Part the Ninth)

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