McCLELLAN'S report. It gives the following reasons why the victory of Antietam was not followed up: Night closed the long and desperately contested battle of the 17th. Nearly two hundred thousand ...

Weigley with Advanced Strategic Art Program students, 4 Feb 2004, U.S. Army War College ... Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1983), p. 71.