The long road to Antietam
Subtitle: how the Civil War became a revolution
By: Richard Slotkin
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9780871404114
Subjects: Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862; United States; United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln); Military leadership
Description: In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy, one that abandoned hope for a compromise peace and committed the nation to all-out war. The centerpiece of that new strategy was the Emancipation Proclamation: an unprecedented use of federal power that would revolutionize Southern society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.