To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1421428962 ISBN13: 9781421428963 Release Date: January 2019 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Length: 808 Pages Weight: 3.20 lbs. Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.0" x 9.8" 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 controvers