Landscape turned red : the Battle of Antietam

Description

Combining brilliant military analysis with rich narrative history, Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on the Battle of Antietam. The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation's history: on this single day, the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. Here renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries, dispatches, and letters to recreate the vivid drama of Antietam as experienced not only by its leaders but also by its soldiers, both Union and Confederate, to produce what the New York Times Book Review has called "the best account of the Battle of Antietam."&#160 Content: Introduction -- Prologue. The last, best hope -- The limits of limited war -- Confederate tide -- Will send you trophies -- Fire on the mountain -- We will make our stand -- To the Dunker Church -- A savage continual thunder -- The spires of Sharpsburg -- To nobly save or meanly lose -- Epilogue. A last farewell -- Appendix I: the lost order -- Appendix II: Burnside and his bridge -- Appendix III: the armies at Antietam.