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What they will do in Maryland, however,
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is capture several hundred slaves and return them,
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or take them, to Virginia.
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They're going to do the same thing in 1863
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in the Gettysburg Campaign on an even larger scale.
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Kidnapping was also part of the Confederate army's job.
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Now, the battle would not have occurred at Antietam except for
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the famous--and it's true--lost order.
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Here's what happened. Lee went into Maryland.
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The Union Army is all around Washington, D. C.;
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there's really no army up in Maryland to stop him, yet.
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He divided his army in three parts,