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The Maps of Antietam: An Atlas of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign, including the Battle of South Mountain, September 2 – 20, 1862 (Savas Beatie Military Atlas) by Bradley M. Gottfried Product Details Hardcover: 360 pages Publisher: Savas Beatie (June 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1611210860 ISBN-13: 978-1611210866 Savas Beaties “The Maps of” series makes available high […]

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The Save Historic Antietam Foundtaion is putting on a tour of “Phase I” of the Antietam Campaign led by Dr. Tom Clemens, author of The Maryland Campaign of September, 1862, Volume I: South Mountain and Dennis Frye, National Park Service Historian at Harper’s Ferry.  This one-day tour will occur on July 31, 2010, covers the […]

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Shepherdstown: Last Clash of the Antietam Campaign, September 19-20, 1862 by Thomas A. McGrath Product Details Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Schroeder Publications (December 3, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 1889246395 ISBN-13: 978-1889246390 Small battle books are a joy!  I have many reasons for making this statement and this book illustrates most of them. They allow us […]

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Taken At The Flood: Robert E. Lee & Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 by Joseph L. Harsh Chapter 1 “We cannot afford to be idle”, Lee’s Strategic Dilemma, September 2-3, 1862 Chapter 1 is all about decisions. Lee had driven the Union forces under John Pope back into the fortifications surrounding Washington, […]

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Taken At The Flood: Robert E. Lee & Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 by Joseph L. Harsh Taken At The Flood picks up where Confederate Tide Rising left off. On September 2, 1862, Robert E. Lee had been in command of the Army of Northern Virginia for almost three months. In that […]

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