To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862

Posted on 10 January 2019 by D. Scott Hartwig

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 Download To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 – kino-fada.fr I cannot imagine there is a book in print or out of print that covers the Maryland Campaign of 1862 as thoroughly and comprehensively as D Scott Hartwig sTo Antietam Creek He appears to have left no stone unturned In 652 pages of text plus three appendices, he covers the Maryland campaign in extensive sometimes excruciating detail up to the eve of the clash along Antietam Creek Hartwig made impressive use of numerous first hand accounts in letters and memoirs and delved deeply into I cannot imagine there is a book in print or out of print that covers the Maryland Campaign of 1862 as thoroughly and comprehensively as D Scott Hartwig sTo Antietam Creek He appears to have left no stone unturned In 652 pages of text plus three appendices, he covers the Maryland campaign in extensive sometimes excruciating detail up to the eve of the clash along Antietam Creek Hartwig made impressive use of numerous first hand accounts in letters and memoirs and delved deeply into official records and previously published works by credible historians His account, unlike ...An excellent look at the period leading up to the Battle of Antietam in 1862 I was especially impressed with the details on the Battle of South Mountain, and am looking forward to the book on the battle itself.One of the best Civil War histories I have read a comprehensive, thorough look at the leadup to the Battle of Antietam Hartwig does well what many Civil War histories do poorly provide a detailed examination not so much of how the battle of fought, but why it was fought where it was, why the timing of events occurred as they did, etc Too often Civil War battle histories simply state that this formation arrived just at this moment, but the logic of how and why they arrive which is, in the One of the best Civil War histories I have read a comprehensive, thorough look at the leadup to the Battle of Antietam Hartwig does well what many Civil War histories do poorly provide a detailed examination not so much of how the battle of fought, but why it was fought where it was, why the timing of events occurred as they did, etc Too often Civil War battle histories simply state that this formation arrived...Excellently researched and written very well Hartwig s history is very detailed.Highly DetailedTook me five years to finish

To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862

English
10 January 2019

D. Scott Hartwig