Landscape turned red
Subtitle: the Battle of Antietam
By: Stephen W. Sears
Series: Essential classics of the Civil War
Publisher: Ticknor & Fields
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780899191720
Subjects: Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
Description: A definitive study of the climactic and pivotal battle of Antietam offers a vivid account of the two armies, the soldiers and officers, and the bitter, bloody campaign and analyzes the impact of Antietam on the Civil War as a whole.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [405]-414.
Includes index.
Series statement from jacket.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Prologue : The last, best hope; title: The limits of limited war; title: Confederate tide; title: Will send you trophies; title: Fire on the mountain; title: We will make our stand; title: To the Dunker church; title: A savage continual thunder; title: The spires of Sharpsburg; title: To nobly save or meanly lose; title: Epilogue : A last farewell; title: Appendixes.; title: The lost order; title: Burnside and his bridge; title: The armies at Antietam