..., and the fords on the Potomac captured by the enemy, and Lee's army shut in between the Antietam and the Potomac. By members of the brigade who were engaged in nearly every battle in Virginia and Maryland , Sharpsburg, on account of its sanguinary and protracted character; has been characterized as the hardest-fought battle of the war. General Hood, who won his rank of major-general for gallantry o...