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The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
so arranged that General Longstreet, with his command, held "young Napoleon" in check until the Yankee forces at the Ferry had capitulated--and this almost in sight of McClellan ! Longstreet then fell back to unite with Jackson and Hill, who, having finished their job at the Ferry, marched to join him. On Tuesday, the 16th of September, the two grand armies encountered each other near Sharpsburg, in Maryland. The scene of conflict was a valley about two miles wide, running south from Boonsboro' to the Potomac river near Sharpsburg; the latter place being near the Maryland side of the Potomac, and some miles up the river from Shepherdstown. This valley is divided by the Antietam creek, which runs down it into the Potomac a few miles below Shepherdstown. On the east side of the valley and of the Antletam lay McClellan, with the abrupt Blue Ridge mountain behind him. On the west side of the Antletam lay Gen. Lee's army, with high mountains rising in his rear. The battle comm