num_pages: 672
description: Complementing Confederate Tide Rising , which covers the origins of the Maryland campaign, Taken at the Flood is a detailed account of the military campaign itself. It focuses on military policy and strategy and the context necessary to understand that strategy. A fair appraisal of the campaign requires a full appraisal of the circumstances under which the two commanders, Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan, labored. 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 the learned it. Antietam has languished in the long, obscuring shadow cast by Gettysburg. Harsh advocates rethinking the Maryland campaign and promotes the argument that Antietam was one of the most interesting, critical, and potentially enlightening episodes in U.S. history.
language: English
title: Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862
titlecomplete: Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862
genres: Military Fiction, History, American Civil War, Civil War, Military History
ratings_count: 47
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Jefferson Davis Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Douglas Southall Freeman History Award
publisher: Kent State Univ Pr