“... Every stalk of corn in the northern and greater part of the field was cut as closely as could have been done with a knife, and the [Confederates] slain lay in rows precisely as they had stood in their ranks a few moments before. It was never my fortune to witness a more bloody, dismal battlefield.”

–Union General Joseph Hooker, 1862



The comment above, from a report by a Union general, can most likely be assumed to refer to __________________

“... Every stalk of corn in the northern and greater part of the field was cut as closely as could have been done with a knife, and the [Confederates] slain lay in rows precisely as they had stood in their ranks a few moments before. It was never my fortune to witness a more bloody, dismal battlefield.”

–Union General Joseph Hooker, 1862



The comment above, from a report by a Union general, can most likely be assumed to refer to __________________

The Battle of Antietam

The Battle of Fort Sumter

The results of Scott’s Anaconda

The events at Appomattox Courthouse

The Battle of Antietam