The author uses the Battle of
Antietam to illustrate some of the better-known qualities of the leaders of both the North and the South during the Civil War.
In the past year, historic property has been saved at Prairie Grove, Arkansas; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; Chancellorsville, Virginia; and
Antietam, Maryland.
In his study of the American Civil War's Peninsula Campaign, Stephen Sears has continued in the vein of his previous works, a biography of George McClellan and a study of the
Antietam campaign.
Principal battles: South Mountain (Maryland),
Antietam (1862); Chickamauga, Farmington (Tennessee) (1863); Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek (both near Strasburg, Virginia) (1864); Dinwiddie Courthouse, Five Forks (1865); Rosebud Creek, Slim Buttes (1876).
military history, the Battle of
Antietam in Maryland in 1862, became 26-year-old Captain Henry Augustus SandAEs Waterloo, when he was mortally wounded by Confederate sharpshooters in the final assault on Sharpsburg.
He was a World War II Veteran serving as a pharmacist mate with the US Navy on the USS
Antietam, on the Midway Islands, and at the Aiea Naval Hospital in Oahu Hawaii.
Whitman, a historian and author who writes about slavery and emancipation in eighteenth and nineteenth-century America, explores the connection between the Maryland Campaign, culminating in the battle of
Antietam in 1862, and the drive to emancipate slaves to win the Civil War.
The Civil War battle of
Antietam (including the Battle of South Mountain) took place on September 2 through 20, 1862.
Atlantic Fleet, Norfolk; USS
Antietam (CG 54); Defense Supply Center Columbus, Columbus, Ohio; U.
"Rangers are trained to explain that the way bullets are assembled in the ground can reveal to us where a troop or unit was located and give us some new piece of information about the battle that we didn't know before," says Ed Wenschhof, chief ranger at
Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland.
As one might expect, they run the gamut from the dramatic to the mundane: a semiliterate Union trooper haranguing about the "Rebbles," a shocked survivor of
Antietam, an eager young doughboy on his way to France, a soldier walking through the dead ashes of Nagasaki.