Word: sharpsburg
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Then Lee fell a few miles back, and drew up to the north and east of Sharpsburg, where all his troops, except Hill's division, joined him. The Union forces were drawn up against him; and both sides fought fiercely during the seventeenth. Both parties were exhausted, and the Confederates began to draw in their lines. Then Sedgwick's fresh division of 6000 northern men made a charge. But at that moment Hill came up with his soldiers from Harper's Ferry, charged Sedgwick in the flank, and in twenty minutes routed the whole division. Then Burnside's troops drove...
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