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To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862

D. Scott Hartwig

4.7/5 ( ratings)

In September 1862 the Federal army huddled within the defenses of Washington, disorganized and discouraged from its recent defeat at Second Manassas. Confederate General Robert E. Lee led his tough and confident Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland in a bold gamble to force a showdown that would win Southern independence. The future of the Union hung in the balance. The campaign that followed lasted only two weeks, but it changed the course of the Civil War.

For the sesquicentennial of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign, D. Scott Hartwig delivers a two-volume study of the campaign and climactic battle. This riveting first installment takes the reader from the controversial return of George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac through the Confederate invasion, the siege and capture of Harpers Ferry, the day-long Battle of South Mountain, and ultimately, to the eve of the great and terrible Battle of Antietam.

794 pages in total, 652 pages of narrative

Language: English

Pages: 808

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Release: September 01, 2012

ISBN: 1421406314

ISBN 13: 9781421406312

To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862

D. Scott Hartwig

4.7/5 ( ratings)

In September 1862 the Federal army huddled within the defenses of Washington, disorganized and discouraged from its recent defeat at Second Manassas. Confederate General Robert E. Lee led his tough and confident Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland in a bold gamble to force a showdown that would win Southern independence. The future of the Union hung in the balance. The campaign that followed lasted only two weeks, but it changed the course of the Civil War.

For the sesquicentennial of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign, D. Scott Hartwig delivers a two-volume study of the campaign and climactic battle. This riveting first installment takes the reader from the controversial return of George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac through the Confederate invasion, the siege and capture of Harpers Ferry, the day-long Battle of South Mountain, and ultimately, to the eve of the great and terrible Battle of Antietam.

794 pages in total, 652 pages of narrative

Language: English

Pages: 808

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Release: September 01, 2012

ISBN: 1421406314

ISBN 13: 9781421406312

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