This failure at Sharpsburg has ended General Lee's invasion of the Union with the army of Northern Virginia, and, at the same time, shown us the horrors of war. Hundreds of our fathers and sons have been killed in quite possibly the bloodiest battle yet. However much I regret the loss of our loved ones, this is the consequence of war, and we cannot stop until victory is assured. General Lee assured me that it would be to our advantage to take the war to maryland, and I do believe that this campaign was the best course of action. For,we were forced to "protect our own country by transferring the seat of war to that of an enemy who pursues us with a relentless and apparently aimless hostility.”
http://www.nps.gov/anti/historyculture/upload/Battle%20history.pdf
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