At the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General Robert E. Lee

At Antietam in September 1862, Lee had moved his Confederate army into Maryland, but Union forces under General George McClellan halted the advance. The fighting ended without a decisive victory, and Lee withdrew back across the Potomac River into Virginia. Thus, choice D, “tried to advance his troops but was turned back by Union forces,” best describes the outcome.

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