On the third day of fighting the Union pushed back a Confederacy threat against Culp’s Hill after seven hours of shooting the Confederacy regained their strength in position. Later, Lee sent three divisions to the Union center. 15,000 men were sent under Pickett's command, Pickett was able to get through a line but was stopped at the face of thousands of casualties. Lee thought Pickett had made it through the line around three o'clock after a large artillery of Confederate guns. The Union had open fire on Confederate soldiers behind a stone wall while Ohio, New York, and Vermont attacked the two enemy sides. Now that the Confederates were under attack from all sides only half of the confederates survived, and Pickett lost two third of his men. As the few survivors came back Lee and Longstreet went to their defensive line along the shore after the failed attack, …show more content…
Lee tries to stir up a plan, but fails when one of his officers lost his copy of his orders. Rumor has it that Lee wanted to separate his troops in four groups and send them in separate directions. Later that day two Union officers found Lee’s plans that the Confederate soldier had lost and brought it to their General George B. McClellen. However McClellen did not attack right away, so in effect, that gave Lee an advantage to gather his troops. On September 17 1862, the two rivals finally met at Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Lee thought that if he could bring war to the North the Confederates could have a shot at winning. However Lee didn’t know that McClellen was not going to give up without a fight and that is what he gave. Lee came from a leading family in Virginia. He went to West Point Academy, and graduated second of his class in 1829. Lee was still a U.S. officer stationed in Texas. In 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. That’s when Lee decided to move back to Virginia. Shortly after Lee moved back, Virginia voted to secede from the