What is Special Order 191?
[[File:Lost Order site.jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|The Best Farm field, where Lee's lost order was found during the American Civil War}}]] '''Special Order 191''' was issued by [[Robert E. Lee]] in early September 1862.<ref name=leeord191CWT>{{cite web |url=http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/lostorder.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/ |title=General Robert E. Lee’s “Lost Order” No. 191 |publisher=Civil War Trust |access-date=3 July 2016}}</ref> It was a [[Writing|handwritten]] order detailing Lee's planned troop movements during his [[Maryland Campaign]] intended to win the [[American Civil War]].<ref name=JohnsonKN>{{cite web |url=http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/10/31/the-lost-document-that-changed-the-civil-war/ |title=The Lost Document That Changed The Civil War |author=Bryan Johnson |date=31 October 2013 |publisher=KnowledgeNuts |access-date=3 July 2016}}</ref> The [[document]] was recovered by [[Union Army|Union soldiers]] and passed on to [[Major general]] [[George B. McClellan]].<ref name=JohnsonKN/> This was a piece of [[Military intelligence|intelligence]] few battle [[commander]]s are ever [[wikt:lucky|lucky]] enough to receive.<ref name=Carlisle60>''A House Divided During the Civil War Era'', eds. Rodney P Carlisle; J Geoffrey Golson (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007), p. 60</ref> It gave the details of how Lee had weakened his forces by splitting them up into several [[wikt:column|column]]s. It also laid out where each part of his army was to be at any given time.<ref name=Carlisle60/> McClellan, usually very slow to act, moved his forces more quickly this time. By the night of September 14, 1862, Lee was no longer following his plan of attack.<ref name=Jermann173>Donald R Jermann, ''Antietam: The Lost Order'' (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 2006), p. 173</ref> He was now reacting to McClellan's troop movements. At this point Lee's main problem became how to keep his army from being destroyed.<ref name=Jermann173/> == Background == Following his success at the [[Seco