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  • The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Volume 1: South Mountain Is Out!

    Tom Clemens announced Thursday on his Maryland Campaign blog that the first volume of his lifelong labor of love, The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Volume 1: South Mountain, is available now at Antietam National Battlefield and should be available soon at Amazon.com.  Everyone I’ve spoken with has had nothing but ebullient praise for Clemens’ […]

  • May 2008 Book Notes

    Those that can’t write, review! May 2008 James Durney Book News First, let me correct something from the April column, The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Ezra A. Carman’s Definitive Study of the Union and Confederate Armies at Antietam is not close to a thousand pages as reported but just under 600 pages. However, it […]

  • Confederate stragglers

    Dmitri Rotov is into an interesting subject now: that of straggling. This was a problem for both sides, but seems to have been worse for the Confederates. Just as one example, in his post-Antietam report, General D. H. Hill complains of The enormous straggling. The battle was fought with less than 30,000 men. Had all […]