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Just in time, Abraham Lincoln
When two brothers visit a museum in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, with their grandmother, they find themselves in a very realistic Civil War setting where they see the Antietam battlefield and meet historical figures from the aftermath of that momentous battle. Includes author's note on the Battle of Antietam.
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Crossroads of freedom : Antietam
The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day in American history, and the turning point of the whole Civil War. At the point where Confederate troops invaded Maryland, poised to take Washington, the morale of the Union was at an all time low. It had suffered a series of defeats, it seemed that foreign governments were on the verge of recognizing the Confederacy and legitimizing its cause, and the Emancipation Proclamation had been shelved indefinitely. McPherson argues that the Union victory at Antietam sharply reversed all this, and gave the Union a new raison d'être in the form of Emancipation. McPherson combines a compelling narrative of the battle itself with a clear analysis of the political situation surrounding it. The final chapters discuss the aftermath of the battle, and its reputation as a pivotal moment in American history.
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The long road to Antietam : how the Civil War became a revolution
In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy, one that abandoned hope for a compromise peace and committed the nation to all-out war. The centerpiece of that new strategy was the Emancipation Proclamation: an unprecedented use of federal power that would revolutionize Southern society.
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Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam
With a tally of more than five thousand killed, twenty thousand wounded, and three thousand missing, the Battle of Antietam made September 17, 1862, the deadliest day of combat in American history. In Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam , Antietam scholar Marion V. Armstrong Jr. completes his magisterial study of Antietam begun in Unfurl Those Colors! by examining Robert E. Lee’s leadership at the climactic battle in the Confederate invasion of Union territory.
Eminent Civil War historians consider Antietam the turning point of the war. Hoping to maintain the initiative they had gained at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Confederate leaders looked to a stunning victory on Northern soil to sour Northern sentiment on the war as well as to coax European powers to recognize the fledgling Confederacy. Having examined McClellan’s command and role at Antietam in Unfurl Those Colors! , Armstrong now recounts in riveting detail Lee’s command decisions and their execution in the field, drawing on a superlative collection of first-person accounts by Confederate veterans to narrate the cataclysmic struggle between Lee and McClellan.
Armstrong sets the stage with a lively recap of the political and military events leading up to the early fall of 1862 and foreshadowing the conflagration to come on September 17. Each chapter then traces a critical section of the battle, the fight for the West Woods and the bloody engagement of the Sunken Road. Armstrong augments this collection with an exceptional set of maps, which will be valued by scholars, readers, and visitors to the battlefield. These unique maps delineate troop movements in intervals as brief as fifteen minutes, bringing to life the fluid, mutable lines that characterize the glory and horror of Antietam.
Either together with Unfurl Those Colors! or as a stand-alone account of the Confederate side of the battle, Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam provides the fullest possible understanding of the experience of Confederate soldiers at Antietam.
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A savage thunder : Antietam and the bloody road to freedom
In September 1862, two great armies faced each other across Antietam Creek. The outnumbered Confederate forces were led by General Robert E. Lee. The Union army was led by General George B. McClellan. Jim Murphy uses archival photographs, maps, and firsthand accounts to recreate one of America's most important battles.
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Antietam
One hundred and fifty years after Antietam, the bloodiest day of battle in American history, CBS Sunday Morning revisits the Civil War scene that forever changed a nation.
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Unfurl Those Colors
Unfurl Those Colors! provides an operational study of
the Army of the Potomac during the pivotal Battle of Antietam on
September 17, 1862, illuminating in details that will fascinate
scholars and armchair generals alike US army commander George B.
McClellan’s command decisions and how those decisions were
carried out in the middle and lower ranks of the Second Army
Corps. Armstrong offers the most comprehensive account yet of the
Second Army Corps’s fight at Antietam, including
Sedgwick’s division in the West Woods and French’s
and Richardson’s divisions at Bloody Land. He offers a
fresh reappraisal of the leadership of Bostonian Edwin V.
“Bull Head” Sumner as the only federal corps
commander who doggedly and accurately carried out
McClellan’s battle plan and effectively directed the battle
on the Federal right. Many esteemed Civil War historians consider
Antietam a watershed moment in the Civil War, a crucial success
after which Abraham Lincoln was emboldened to issue the
Emancipation Proclamation.
Unfurl Those Colors! offers a vital examination of the
operational fabric of the Army of the Potomac’s leadership
and command in one of the most important days in American
history.
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