Antietam The Soldiers' Battle

Countless historians have analyzed Antietam, a battle which proved to be the bloodiest single day in American military history, with more American casualties in one day than those incurred during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War combined. Here, historian John Michael Priest tells this brutal tale of slaughter from an entirely new perspective, that of the common enlisted man. Concentrating on the days of actual battle-September 16, 17, and 18, 1862-Priest vividly brings to life the fear, the horror, and the profound courage that soldiers displayed, from the first Federal cavalry probe of the Confederate lines to the last skirmish on the streets of Sharpsburg, Maryland. Besides being a gripping tale charged with the immediacy of firsthand accounts of the fighting, Antietam also dispels many misconceptions long held by historians and Civil War buffs alike. Seventy-two detailed maps together with rarely-seen photographs and his own intimate knowledge of the Antietam terrain, allow Priest to offer a substantially new interpretation of what actually happened.Priest, John M. is the author of 'Antietam The Soldiers' Battle' with ISBN 9780195084665 and ISBN 0195084667.