16 September 1862: Tuesday

Government - Union
The still-worried President Lincoln wired Governor Andrew Curtin of Pennsylvania, "What do you hear from General McClellan's army." Later in the day he will hear from his general.

Military - Confederacy
Maryland
Along the Antietam Creek, Lee gathers his forces and forms his lines.

A hard night march had brought Stonewall Jackson from Harper's Ferry and McLaws is on his way. A division under A. P. Hill remains at the Ferry to complete surrender arrangements.

Kirby Smith's Confederates continue their withdrawal from the Ohio River near Cincinnati back toward Lexington.

Military - Union
Maryland
Union forces move forward cautiously from Keedysville; there is some desultory firing, but no major firing by General McClellan and his Army of the Potomac. Many will say later that a great opportunity was thereby lost.

Virginia
There is a Union reconnaissance toward Thoroughfare Gap and Aldie, and from this day to the 19th, a reconnaissance from Upton's Hill to Leesburg.

Kentucky
Some four thousand Union troops are surrounded at Munfordville by Braxton Bragg.

There is skirmishing near Oakland Station.

Missouri
There is a skirmish in Monroe County.

Mississippi
There is a skirmish near Iuka.

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Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971