The Antietam Campaign

The Maryland campaign of September 1862 ranks among the most important military operations of the American Civil War. Crucial political, diplomatic, and military issues were at stake as Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan maneuvered and fought in the western part of the state. The climactic clash came on September 17 at the battle of Antietam, where more than 23,000 men fell in the single bloodiest day of the war. Approaching topics related to Lee's and McClellan's operations from a variety of perspectives, contributors to this volume explore questions regarding military leadership, strategy, and tactics, the impact of the fighting on officers and soldiers in both armies, and the ways in which participants and people behind the lines interpreted and remembered the campaign. They also discuss the performance of untried military units and offer a look at how the United States Army used the Antietam battlefield as an outdoor classroom for its officers in the early twentieth century. The contributors are William A. Blair, Keith S. Bohannon, Peter S. Carmichael, Gary W. Gallagher, Lesley J. Gordon, D. Scott Hartwig, Robert E. L. Krick, Robert K. Krick, Carol Reardon, and Brooks D. Simpson.

Introduction
The Net Result of the Campaign Was in Our Favor:
Confederate Reaction to the Maryland Campaign
General McClellan's Bodyguard:
The Army of the Potomac after Antietam Brooks
Or How Lincoln and His Army Helped to Define the Confederacy
Dirty, Ragged, and Ill-Provided For:
Confederate Logistical Problems in the 1862
Maryland Campaign and Their Solutions
Who Would Not Be a Soldier:
The Volunteers of '62 in the Maryland Campaign D. Scott Hartwig All
Who Went into
That Battle Were Heroes:
Remembering the 16th Regiment Connecticut
Volunteers at Antietam
J. E. B. Stuart, John Pelham, and Confederate
Artillery on Nicodemus Heights
It Appeared As Though Mutual Extermination
Would Put a Stop to the Awful Carnage:
Confederates in Sharpsburg's Bloody Lane
We Don't Know What on Earth to Do with Him:
William Nelson Pendleton and the Affair at Shepherdstown, September 19, 1862
From Antietam to the Argonne:
The Maryland Campaign's Lessons for Future Leaders of the American Expeditionary
Force Carol Reardon
Bibliographic Essay Contributors
Index
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The Antietam Campaign

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