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Newspaper Page TextMONDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1362 A 5 For Larger Sizes MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Fluffy as Fur Hats tfLWIh 7,73 BBsCIV-IEl WAR II TZ 1 i r C-i--iE. . I qj v m I . " HI 03 l 1 f - r vTV- V, " V' ii A 9154 Ml SIZES IT 36-iO Tiny bows highlight the curved yoke of this afternoon dress in which you'll make many graceful appearances bow and all through Winter. Printed Pattern 9154: Wo men's Sizes 38, 38, 40, 42, 44, 48, 48, 50. Size 38 takes 3's yards 39-inch fabric. FIFTY CENTS in coins for this pattern - add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mail. Send to Marian Martin, Medford Mail Tribune, Pat tern Dept., 232 West 18th St.. New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUM BER. FIRST TIME EVER! Glam orous movie star's wardrobe plus 110 exciting styles to sew In our new Fall-Winter Pat tern Catalog. Send 35c. ANOTHER RUSSIAN TEST Washington - IUPH - The So viet Union set off another nu clear blast in the atmosphere Sunday at its Novaya Zemlya testing ground. It was the sec ond Russian test in two days. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission said the test was along the order of Saturday's explosion, which was said to have had a blast force as high as 10 megatons - 10 million tons of TNT. Washington - Average el derly U. S. woman is a widow; average elderly man is married. A Prettiest way to be warm - just crochet these loopy, luxurious hats in 3-ply yarn. The fluffy look in fashion's top shapes-the cone and pill box. Crochet in one or two colors. Pattern 7475: direc tions fit all headsizes. THIRTY FIVE CENTS (coins) for this pattern - add 10 cents for each pattern for 1st -class mailing. Send to Alice Brooks, care of Medford Mail Tribune, Needlecraft Dept., P. O. Box 163, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PATTERN NUM BER. 1963's Biggest Needlecraft Show stars smocked acces sories - it's our new Needle craft Catalog! Plus over 200 fresh-to-you designs to knit, crochet, sew, weave, embroi der, quilt. Plus free pattern. Send 25c now! The Bloody Battle of Antietam By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent The bloodiest day of battle in the Civil War occurred on Sept. 17, 1862 along the banks of a small stream in western Maryland called Antietam Creek. Federals called the battle Antietam from the creek. Confederates called it Sharps burg from a nearby village. Federals called it a victory. Confederates a drawn battle. Nearly 5.000 men. Blue and Gray, were killed in action -2.108 Northerners and 2.700 Southerners. All told there were 26.134 casualties - 12.410 Federals; 13,724 Confederates About 125,000 men fought that red September day. The Confederate invasion of Maryland splashed to a high water mark at Antietam and then receded back into Vir ginia where Gen. Robert E. Lee returned to the defensive. The two-week invasion was ohly a partial success. Lee's objective of recruiting in Maryland fell flat. Hopes Vanish His aim to lure Union forces out of northern Vir ginia, already devastated, was successful for only about a month. Hopes of gaining a decisive victory on Union soil and swaying Britain and France into recognizing the Con federacy vanished. One objective Lee d l d achieve. He fed his hungry men on the lush provender of Maryland. After the battle of South Mountain on Sept. 14, Lee pulled his wing of the army back to Sharpsburg and made a daring decision to stand and fight despite the shaky posi tion and inferiority of nam- hers Nearly half the army, under Stonewall Jackson, was at Harper s Ferry, south of j Sharpsburg. Harper i Ferry was a rich prize still in the 'hands of the Federals. Lee . had expected it would be i abandoned when his army flanked it by crossing the Potomac between it and Wash ington. But the Federals held I on and Lee divided his forces, l sending Jackson to capture it. ! Jackson was to rejoin the I army farther north. Lee de I pended on Maj. Gen. George i B. McClcllan advancing his ! Union Army of the Potomac cautiously. But Lee s order dividing his army had fallen into MeClellan's hands and he was closing in more rapidly. Jackson made short work of Harper's Ferry. He closed in on three sides. By Sept. 14 the more than 12,000 Federal troops at the Ferry were look ing up into the muzzles of Confederate cannon on the heights around the town. Their situation was hopeless and at 9 a.m., on Sept. 15, Col. D. S. Miles surrendered. He was killed after the white flags went up. 11,000 Prisoners Leaving the division of Maj. Gen. A. P. Hull at the Ferry, Jackson started his men im mediately for Sharps burg. Harper's Ferry yielded 11,000 prisoners (1,300 escaped) 13, 000 small arms and 73 can non. Jackson's "foot cavalry" marched all nignt and reached Sharpsburg on the 16lh, none too soon. McClcllan had moved his army into a semi circle north, east and south of Sharpsburg that day but de cided "it was too late to at tack" before dark. Lee's Army lined up north and east of iv ',. Extra Work Made Easy! RENT Adding Machine Typewriter Calculator VOIGHT'S 8th I Gfjp 772-4100 --v. eA tip feT BLOODIEST DAY The bloodiest day of battle in the Civil War occurred on Sept. 9, 1862. along the banks of this small stream in Western Maryland. About 125,000 men fought that day - 5,000 of them were killed and overall casualties totaled nearly 27,000. At this stream, the Confederate invasion of Maryland reached its high watermark, then slowly receded. The Confederates called it a draw, but the Union called it a victory. Scratch victory though it was. President Lincoln seized on it and put the finishing touches on the Emancipation Proclamation. This drawing, courtesy of the Department of Interior, shows action on the bridge over Antietam creek. - (UPI) : i'V dispenser filter .. . X 1 ! v blends in detergent, A- " ikw filters out lint! VT,? 2-speed, 2-cycle automatic washer Sharpsburg with its back to the Potomac, a dangerous position in case of defeat. The battle of Antietam opened at dawn on Sept. 17. The corps of Mnj. Gen. Joseph Hooker hit from the Federal right, attacking Jack son's command under heavy artillery fire. . Hooker's men fought their way into lackson's line but eventually were beaten off by reinforcements. Maj. Gen. Jos seph K. F. Mansfield's corps ! next struck at Jackson but it. i too, was repulsed, Mansfield dying at its head. Hooker was wounded in the foot. ' Heaviest Fighting About 8 a.m. Maj. Gen. Ed win V. Sumner marched his corps, the biggest in the Army of the Potomac, across the An tietam and attacked in about the same spot. Here along a ; sunken road, called from that I day Bloody Lane, the heaviest fighting of the battle occurred. The blueeoats charged the lane time after lime only to be beaten back. Finally after noon a Union charge carried the lane. A Federal soldier described the scene: "What a sight was that lane . . . I saw many a ghastly ar- j ray of dead afterward, but none, I think, that so affected me as did the sight of the poor j brave fellows in butternut j homespun who died there . , ." I At this point Lee's left and center lines were little more ; than threads. But McClcllan, overestimating Lee's strength, held back his Sunday punch and missed his chance. Soon after noon the fighting on the Federal right died down. Then the Federal corps of Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burn side attacked on the left. He had been ordered to carry a bridge over the creek. Three items he sent his troops onto the bridge, which now bears his name. The creek could have been forded almost anywhere. Perfect Target The blue columns, which filled the bridge from guard- ! rail to guardrail, gave Con- j federate cannoneers a perfect ' target and they made the most j of it, knocking out whole squads at a time. But one Federal charge rolled over the bridge by ( sheer force of numbers. They reformed and went on up the slope. Here, too, complete success eluded the Federals. j Burnside was on the edge of j victory when part of, A. P. j Hill's division hit him on the left. Hill's men had made a forced march from Harper's Ferry, about half of them fall ing exhausted. But enough stood up to deliver the blow at 4 p.m. which saved the Con federate army. All night Sept. 17-18 the armies buried the dead and tended the wounded by lan tern light. Lee held a meeting that night. He decided not to re treat, a move the rulcbook called for under the condi tions. It was noon of the 18th before Jackson and Maj. Gen. James Longstrcet talked him out of an offensive. McClcllan, despite the fact that he had 24,000 troops who had seen little action the day before and two new divisions which arrived early on Sept. 18, felt too crippled to attack again. That night Lee withdrew across the Potomac and back into Virginia with only a token pursuit by the Federals. Although McClcllan felt too weak to attack, he wrote that day in a private letter: "Those in whose judgment I rely tell me that I fought the battle splendidly and that it was a masterpiece of art." Few agreed. Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Mead summed up the battle this way: "We hurt them a little more than they hurt us." Scratch victory though it was. President Lincoln seized on it and put the final touches on his Emancipation Proclam ation. 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