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.
Antietam James M. McPherson. 11. 12. 13. 14. 16. 17. 18. 19. 6. ... John B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, ed. ... 10, 28, 1862; “Journal of a Secesh Lady”: The Diary of Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston, 1860–1866, ed.
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Although he constantly anticipated one big, decisive battle that would crush the South, he squandered one military opportunity after another, and, if Sears is correct, he was the worst strategist the Army of the Potomac ever had.
It used tried and tested Morse-code sending and receiving instruments, powered by heavy lead-acid batteries. For tactical communications — battlefield and intra-army communications — the U.S. Army's Signal Corps had its own tried and ...
12, 1869, Ladd and Ladd, eds., Bachelder Papers, 1:364–65; Ruger, Colgrove reports, OR 27.1:781, 814; Alonzo H. Quint, The Record of the Second Massachusetts Infantry, 1861–1865 (Boston: James Walker, 1867), 180, 183; Morse to his ...
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Pearson, Henry Greenleaf. The Life of John A. Andrew: Governor of Massachusetts, 1861–1865. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904. Pennypacker, Isaac Rusling. General Meade. New York: Appleton, 1901. Pierrepont, Alice V. D. Reuben ...
Francis Augustín O'Reilly draws upon his intimate knowledge of the battlegrounds to discuss the unprecedented nature of Fredericksburg's warfare.
Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloodiest Day
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