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I Dread the Thought of the Place - The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign: D.Scott Hartwig I Dread the Thought of the Place - The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign
D.Scott Hartwig
R1,295 Discovery Miles 12 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The definitive account of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War. The memory of the Battle of Antietam was so haunting that when, nine months later, Major Rufus Dawes learned another Antietam battle might be on the horizon, he wrote, "I hope not, I dread the thought of the place." In this definitive account, historian D. Scott Hartwig chronicles the single bloodiest day in American history, which resulted in 23,000 casualties. The Battle of Antietam marked a vital turning point in the war: afterward, the conflict could no longer be understood as a limited war to preserve the Union, but was now clearly a conflict over slavery. Though the battle was tactically inconclusive, Robert E. Lee withdrew first from the battlefield, thus handing President Lincoln the political ammunition necessary to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. This is the full story of Antietam, ranging from the opening shots of the battle to the powerful reverberations—military, political, and social—it sent through the armies and the nation. Based on decades of research, this in-depth narrative sheds particular light on the visceral experience of battle, an often misunderstood aspect of the American Civil War, and the emotional aftermath for those who survived. Hartwig provides an hour-by-hour tactical history of the battle, beginning before dawn on September 17 and concluding with the immediate aftermath, including General McClellan's fateful decision not to pursue Lee's retreating forces back across the Potomac to Virginia. With 21 unique maps illustrating the state of the battle at intervals ranging from 20 to 120 minutes, this long-awaited companion to Hartwig's To Antietam Creek will be essential reading for anyone interested in the Civil War.

The Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862 - A Bibliography (Hardcover): D.Scott Hartwig The Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862 - A Bibliography (Hardcover)
D.Scott Hartwig
R1,999 Discovery Miles 19 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a full bibliography of one of the most important campaigns of the American Civil War--the Maryland Campaign and the bloody Battle of Antietam. The battle, fought on September 17, 1862, claimed the war's largest single-day casualties--over 25,000 killed, wounded, or captured. The book begins with a history of the campaign and profiles of the important leaders, followed by library/archival resources. The body of the volume is devoted to resources covering the battle and its leaders, including general histories and biographies of various general officers.

To Antietam Creek - The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 (Paperback): D.Scott Hartwig To Antietam Creek - The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 (Paperback)
D.Scott Hartwig
R1,106 Discovery Miles 11 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A richly detailed account of the hard-fought campaign that led to Antietam Creek and changed the course of the Civil War. In early September 1862 thousands of Union soldiers huddled within the defenses of Washington, disorganized and discouraged from their recent defeat at Second Manassas. Confederate General Robert E. Lee then led his tough and confident Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland in a bold gamble to force a showdown that could 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. D. Scott Hartwig delivers a riveting first installment of a two-volume study of the campaign and climactic battle. It 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 daylong Battle of South Mountain, and, ultimately, to the eve of the great and terrible Battle of Antietam.

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