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General McClellan's most grievous error was hugely overestimating Confederate numbers.
This delusion dominated his military character.
In August 1861, taking command of the Army of the Potomac, he began entirely on his own to over-count the enemy's forces.
Most importantly, Union victory at Antietam provided President Abraham Lincoln the opportunity he had wanted to announce the Emancipation Proclamation, making the Battle of Antietam one of the key turning points of the American Civil War.
Why was Antietam so deadly? Advanced technology, unwise tactics, and terrible decision-making.
The combination of new rifles that could be shot with great accuracy from far away and old-fashioned battle lines led to unprecedented deaths in the Battle of Antietam (and in the Civil War in general).
McClellan overestimated the size of Lee's force, assuming that Lee had nearly 100,000 troops in his command, and insisted that the fall of Harpers Ferry, Virginia, on September 15 allowed an additional 40,000 Confederate troops—in his inflated estimation—to fight at Antietam.
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