David A Welker, "The Cornfield: Antietam's Bloody Turning Point"
English | ISBN: 1612008321 | 2020 | 384 pages | EPUB | 13 MB
English | ISBN: 1612008321 | 2020 | 384 pages | EPUB | 13 MB
"The extensive use of primary sources makes this book of interest to all Civil War enthusiasts." ― Library Journal
Antietam. For generations of Americans this word—the name of a bucolic stream in western Maryland—held the same sense of horror and carnage that the simple date 9/11 does for modern America. But Antietam eclipses even this modern tragedy as America's single bloodiest day, on which 22,000 men became casualties in a war to determine our nation’s future.
Antietam is forever burned into the American psyche, a battle bathed in blood that served no military purpose, brought no decisive victory. This much Americans know. What they didn't know is why this is so—until now.