Final Day
As he had gone the next day with McClellan at Antietam, Lee's officers protesting by holding his army in the line of battle inviting Meade to attack him. Meade rode up and down his lines, counting his casualties progress, he decided the prudent thing to do was to defend. Lee waited Patiently, until dawn when heard to clap his hands exclaiming, "It's too bad, too, too bad!" And then he gave the order to withdraw, and soon enough beside him his army was marching south. At the Monterey Gap, he positioned his army through the South Mountain in a bend of the Potomac, at Galling waters, where he had been for three days battling Meade. Meade decided to stand on defense and Lee finally crossed his army over the river.