The Battle Of Antietam And The Maryland Campaign Of 1862

Author : D. Scott Hartwig
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421408767

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To Antietam Creek by D. Scott Hartwig Pdf

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 controversial return of George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac through the Confederate invasion, the siege and capture of Harpers Ferry, the daylong Battle of South Mountain, and, ultimately, to the eve of the great and terrible Battle of Antietam.

Author : Jay Luvaas,Harold W. Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019214175

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Guide to the Battle of Antietam, the Maryland Campaign of 1862 by Jay Luvaas,Harold W. Nelson Pdf

"America's bloodiest day"—the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862—left more dead American soldiers in its wake than any other 24-hour period in history. Antietam and the related battles of the Maryland Campaign that led up to the lethal confrontation did not result in decisive defeats for either side. But they did serve as a brutal warning to an out-gunned, out-commanded, and out-organized Union army. Eyewitness accounts by battle participants make these guides an invaluable resource for travelers and nontravelers who want a greater understanding of five of the most devastating yet influential years in our nation's history. Explicit directions to points of interest and maps—illustrating the action and showing the detail of troop position, roads, rivers, elevations, and tree lines as they were 130 years ago—help bring the battles to life. In the field, these guides can be used to recreate each battle's setting and proportions, giving the reader a sense of the tension and fear each soldier must have felt as he faced his enemy.

Author : James V. Murfin
Publisher : Louisiana State University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4439569

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The Gleam of Bayonets by James V. Murfin Pdf

The gleam of bayonets is a comprehensive account of all the factors, events, and personalities which contributed to and composed this important moment of the Civil War ... The battle itself is presented with remarkable clarity; atmosphere and fact, emotions and tactical movements blend together into a harmonious whole.

Author : D. Scott Hartwig
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313280719

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The Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862 by D. Scott Hartwig Pdf

This is a full bibliography of one of the most important campaigns of the American Civil War--the Maryland Campaign and the bloody Battle of Antietam. The battle, fought on September 17, 1862, claimed the war's largest single-day casualties--over 25,000 killed, wounded, or captured. The book begins with a history of the campaign and profiles of the important leaders, followed by library/archival resources. The body of the volume is devoted to resources covering the battle and its leaders, including general histories and biographies of various general officers.

Author : Ezra A. Carman,Thomas Clemens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611213034

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The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 by Ezra A. Carman,Thomas Clemens Pdf

The Battle of Shepherdstown and the End of the Campaign is the third and final volume of Ezra Carman’s magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862. As bloody and horrific as the battle of Antietam was, historian Ezra Carman—who penned a 1,800-page manuscript on the Maryland campaign—did not believe it was the decisive battle of the campaign. Generals Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan intended to continue fighting after Sharpsburg, but the battle of Shepherdstown Ford (September 19 and 20) forced them to abandon their goals and end the campaign. Carman was one of the few who gave this smaller engagement its due importance, detailing the disaster that befell the 118th Pennsylvania Infantry and Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill’s success in repulsing the Union advance, and the often overlooked foray of Jeb Stuart’s cavalry to seize the Potomac River ford at Williamsport. Carman also added a statistical study of the casualties in the various battles of the entire Maryland Campaign, and covered Lincoln’s decision to relieve McClellan of command on November 7. He also explored the relations between President Lincoln and General McClellan before and after the Maryland Campaign, which he appended to his original manuscript. The “before” section, a thorough examination of the controversy about McClellan’s role in the aftermath of Second Manassas campaign, will surprise some and discomfort others, and includes an interesting narrative about McClellan’s reluctance to commit General Franklin’s corps to aid Maj. Gen. John Pope’s army at Manassas. Carman concludes with an executive summary of the entire campaign. Dr. Clemens concludes Carman’s invaluable narrative with a bibliographical dictionary (and genealogical goldmine) of the soldiers, politicians, and diplomats who had an impact on shaping Carman’s manuscript. While many names will be familiar to readers, others upon whom Carman relied for creating his campaign narrative are as obscure to us today as they were during the war. The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Vol. III: The Battle of Shepherdstown and the End of the Campaign, concludes the most comprehensive and detailed account of the campaign ever produced. Jammed with firsthand accounts, personal anecdotes, detailed footnotes, maps, and photos, this long-awaited study will be appreciated as Civil War history at its finest.

Author : Joseph Pierro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135912390

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The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 by Joseph Pierro Pdf

Completed in the early 1900s, The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 is still the essential source for anyone seeking understanding of the bloodiest day in all of American history. As the U.S. War Department’s official expert on the Battle of Antietam, Ezra Carman corresponded with and interviewed hundreds of other veterans from both sides of the conflict to produce a comprehensive history of the campaign that dashed the Confederacy’s best hope for independence and ushered in the Emancipation Proclamation. Nearly a century after its completion, Carman's manuscript has finally made its way into print, in an attractively packaged one-volume edition painstakingly edited, annotated, and indexed by Joseph Pierro. This edition, the first to publish the entire Carman manuscript, including the fifteen appendices, is designed for ease of use, with standardized punctuation and spelling, and conveniently footnoted explanations wherever necessary. The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 is a crucial document for anyone interested in delving below the surface of the military campaign that forever altered the course of American history, and is still the only complete edition of Carman's work on the market. **Due to an unfortunate case of mistaken identity, the man currently appearing in the frontispiece of The Maryland Campaign of September, 1862 is not the actual Ezra Carman, but someone who looks remarkably similar to him. The real Mr. Carman can be found at: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003001783/PP/. We apologize for the mistake, and will correct this error in further printings.

Author : Ezra Carman
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611210552

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The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Volume I by Ezra Carman Pdf

The definitive soldier’s-eye view of the Battle of Antietam—the bloodiest day in American history. A veteran of the Battle of Antietam, Ezra A. Carman served as a colonel of the 13th New Jersey Infantry. After the horrific fighting of September 17, 1862, he recorded in his diary that he was preparing “a good map of the Antietam battle and a full account of the action.” Unbeknownst to the young officer, the project would become the most significant work of his life. Appointed as the “Historical Expert” to the Antietam Battlefield Board in 1894, Carman solicited accounts from hundreds of veterans, scoured through thousands of letters and maps, and assimilated the material into the hundreds of cast iron tablets that still mark the field today. Carman also wrote an 1,800-page manuscript on the campaign. Although it remained unpublished for more than a century, many historians and students of the war consider it to be the best overall treatment of the campaign ever written. Dr. Thomas G. Clemens, recognized internationally as one of the foremost historians of the Maryland Campaign, has spent more than two decades studying Antietam and editing and richly annotating Carman’s exhaustively written manuscript. The result is The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Carman’s magisterial account published for the first time in two volumes. Jammed with firsthand accounts, personal anecdotes, maps, photos, a biographical dictionary, and a database of veterans’ accounts of the fighting, this long-awaited study will be read and appreciated as battle history at its finest.

Author : George Hess (of the 28th Pa. volunteers.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Antietam National Battlefield (Md.)
ISBN : PSU:000018964165

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The Maryland Campaign from Sept. 1st to Sept. 20th, 1862 by George Hess (of the 28th Pa. volunteers.) Pdf

Author : Miles Clayton Huyette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
ISBN : PRNC:32101013356405

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The Maryland Campaign and the Battle of Antietam by Miles Clayton Huyette Pdf

Author : Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0807858943

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The Antietam Campaign by Gary W. Gallagher Pdf

Ten original essays offer fresh insight into the bloodiest day of the Civil War. Contributors explore questions of military leadership, strategy, and tactics, the performance of untried military units, and the ways in which the battle has been remembered.

Author : Kevin Pawlak
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781636242675

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Such a Clash of Arms by Kevin Pawlak Pdf

By the late summer of 1862, it appeared as though the United States would be permanently split in two, and by the beginning of September, General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was on the doorstep of Washington, D.C. Panicked and defeated Federal soldiers huddled behind the capital’s defenses. Rather than attacking the city, Lee turned his attention north into Maryland, seeking a decisive battlefield victory to influence public opinion at home and diplomatic opinion overseas. Major General George B. McClellan led the reorganized Army of the Potomac into the state to meet Lee. Over a span of 18 days, the two armies fought four significant battles, including the climactic engagement along Antietam Creek outside Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862. The battle there still holds the distinction as the bloodiest single day in American military history. Forced from Maryland, Lee withdrew into Virginia, leaving President Abraham Lincoln free to follow up this strategic victory with the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, a measure that changed the nature of the American Civil War. Copious illustrations and maps paired with a detailed text, this account of the Maryland campaign will have wide appeal.

Author : Joseph L. Harsh
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : 0873386310

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Taken at the Flood by Joseph L. Harsh Pdf

Harsh attempts to discover what they believed their responsibilities were and what they tried to accomplish; to evaluate the human and logistical resources at their disposal; and to determine what they knew and when they learned it."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : D. Scott Hartwig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018823222

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The Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862 by D. Scott Hartwig Pdf

Author : Dennis E. Frye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
ISBN : 0963774573

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Antictam Revealed by Dennis E. Frye Pdf

1,865 entries concerning the civil war battle of antietam (17 September 1862) including: index, bibliography, maps, illustrations

Author : Ted Ballard
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782898603

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Battle Of Antietam, Staff Ride Guide [Illustrated Edition] by Ted Ballard Pdf

Contains more than 20 maps, diagrams and illustrations The Battle of Antietam has been called the bloodiest single day in American History. By the end of the evening, 17 September 1862, an estimated 4,000 American soldiers had been killed and over 18,000 wounded in and around the small farming community of Sharpsburg, Maryland. Emory Upton, then a captain with the Union artillery battery, later wrote, "I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps,' but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together." The battle had been a day of confusion, tactical blunders, individual heroics, and the effects of just plain luck. It brought to an end a Confederate campaign to "liberate" the border state of Maryland and possibly take the war into Pennsylvania. A little more than one hundred and forty years later, the Antietam battlefield is one of the best-preserved Civil War battlefields in the National Park System. Antietam is ideal for a staff ride, since a continuing goal of the National Park Service is to maintain the site in the condition in which it was on the day of the battle. The purpose of any staff ride is to learn from the past by analyzing the battle through the eyes of the men who were there, both leaders and rank-and-file soldiers. Antietam offers many lessons in command and control, communications, intelligence, weapons technology versus tactics, and the ever-present confusion, or "fog" of battle. We hope that these lessons will allow us to gain insights into decision-making and the human condition during combat.