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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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Reading the War September 1862  Tempest At Ox Hill: The Battle Of Chantilly by David A. Welker is one a very few books on this small battle. We are lucky that it is a very good book about a very nasty little battle that saved much of Pope’s army.   Often lost in the rush […]

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If you’re looking for some good Antietam reading as the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam nears, you’re in luck.  Not one but two promising new books on Antietam have recently become available. First, we have Tom Clemens’ long-awaited The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Vol. II: Antietam, which is a fully and exhaustively […]

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