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This is a photo of an old bridge across Antietam Creek. Gen. Ambrose Burnside lost many men trying a frontal assault across this bridge (the creek could easily have been forded, and, later, that is what happened). The Confederates had asked for volunteers who had hunted squirrels as boys, figuring they could shoot accurately. This was the first time that the advent of the rifled musket, as opposed to the smooth bore, impressed itself upon a military commander. Burnside realized then that soldiers needed to be taught marksmanship.
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