The first battle of Robert E. Lee's Maryland Campaign was the battle of Boonsboro, Maryland, September 14, 1862. This battle is remembered in the North as the Battle of South Mountain. The Battle of Sharpsburg is what the Confederates called Antietam and they were both fought in Maryland. See the link below.
Yes, the Confederacy won the Battle of Chickamauga.
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Battle of Vicksburg
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Antietam
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The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Antietam was fought in Maryland on September 17, 1862. After the battle, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all the slaves living in the Confederacy. This act dissuaded foreign states such as France and England, from coming to the aid of the Confederacy. Both countries had banned slavery and there were unwilling to ally with the Confederacy once the Union had tied their cause to the destruction of slavery.
As far as recognition of the Confederacy, England did not help them. There was some trade carried out, but official recognition and aid was not forthcoming.
Battle of Antietam.
Antietam
More than one historian has put forth the idea that when the Union lost the Second Battle of Bull Run, that European intervention was at a high peak of intervention. They argue that if Confederate General had not invaded Maryland but instead consolidated its forces, Great Britain and France may well have determined that it was time for intervention in the US Civil War. The hope of the Confederacy was, of course a proposal by Great Britain for intervention and soon formal recognition of the Confederacy.
The Battle of Antietam
The first battle of Robert E. Lee's Maryland Campaign was the battle of Boonsboro, Maryland, September 14, 1862. This battle is remembered in the North as the Battle of South Mountain. The Battle of Sharpsburg is what the Confederates called Antietam and they were both fought in Maryland. See the link below.
This was yet another in a chain of decisive victories for Lee, which brought the British close to granting official recognition to the Confederacy and sending miitary aid. It gave Lee the confidence to plan an invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania, which failed, and caused the British to suspend their plans for recognition.
Freeing the slaves in the Confederacy.Lincoln issued the first Emancipation Proclamation shortly after the Battle of Antietam. It would take effect January 1, 1863.This did not effect any European power from formal recognition. least of all the world's most powerful empire with millions of "Native Peoples " under their control. One can call it forced labor. The British had already given the Confederacy "de facto " recognition as it had a constitution, a government and an army.