CHAPTER XIX.

BATTLE OF SHARPSBURG, OR ANTIETAM (CONTINUED).

Closing Events of the Great Struggle--Burnside crosses the Bridge he made famous--Toombs made Gallant Defence, but was outnumbered and dislodged--The Confederate Brigades from Harper's Ferry under A. P. Hill in Time for the Final Crisis-- Burnside's Advance arrested by them--The Battle against Burnside "appeared to spring from the Earth"--"Lee's old War Horse"--The Killing of a Kinsman at the Bridge seriously affects General D. R. Jones--The Sharp Fight at Shepherdstown-- Confederates retreat--Casualties of the Battle--Confederate Losses in the Campaign--Neither McClellan's Plan nor Execution was strong 256