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Name: _________________________________ Civil War: Battle of Antietam Video Webquest Go to the following website: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam/maps/antietam-animated-map.html Click on Launch Animated Map Answer the following questions: Part 1: Introduction 1. After a string of victories, where does Robert E. Lee take the Confederate army for the first time? 2. What state was invaded by the Confederate army? 3. What information did the Union commander George B. McClellan have that made him feel confident about moving his army after Robert E. Lee? Part 2: Opening Action 4. What is the name of the creek that flows by the city of Sharpsburg? 5. What month was the Battle of Antietam? 6. What was it like for the Union and Confederate forces fighting in the corn field? 7. What mistakes does Union General Sumner make during the opening of the attack? Part 3: Attack at the Sunken Road 8. What was the main difference between the Union soldiers and Confederate soldiers during the fight at the Sunken Road? 9. How many regiments of Confederate forces fall back from the Sunken Road? 10. What did the area of the Sunken Road where 5,600 men were killed or wounded become known as? Part 4: Burnside’s Bridge 11. When does Union General Burnside finally receive the order to attack? What does this allow Confederate General Robert E. Lee to do? 12. Why were the Confederate forces able to easily defend the bridge? 13. Was Union General Burnside able to get his forces across Antietam Creek? Part 5. The Final Attack 14. What do some Confederate units start doing once it appears that General Burnside will penetrate Lee’s right flank? 15. How does Confederate General A.P. Hill help Robert E. Lee? 16. What does Union General George B. McClellan’s lack of an attack on the second day allow Robert E. Lee to do? Part 6. Conclusion 17. Why do many historians argue that Antietam was a victory for the Union? 18. What does Lincoln do to McClellan just a few months after the Battle of Antietam? 19. About how many Americans were killed, wounded, and captured at Antietam? 20. What does Lincoln use the Union victory at Antietam to announce?