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The Battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg). There were around twenty-four thousand casualties, combined, in both armies. Not all of these died. About 3,600 died and the rest were wounded or missing. There were 12,400 Yankee casualties (2,401 dead, 9,540 wounded, and 753 missing) and 10,300 Confederate casualties (1,546 dead, 7,752 wounded, 1,018 missing). The Yankees put into the fight twice as many men as the Confederates had, and did not even put two of their seven corps in. Had the Yankees put in all their men or made a coordinated attack with the ones they did put in, they might have ended the war that day.

The "Lost Order" was a big controversy after the war, when former Confederates were writing their books and blaming one another for losing the war.

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