{"product_id":"opposing-the-second-corps-at-antietam-the-fight-for-the-confederate-left-and-center-on-americas-bloodiest-day-9780817361693","title":"Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam: The Fight for the Confederate Left and Center on America's Bloodiest Day","description":"\u003cb\u003eOffers a definitive guide to the Confederate army's primary engagements at the epic Battle of Antietam\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With a tally of more than five thousand killed, twenty thousand wounded, and three thousand missing, the Battle of Antietam made September 17, 1862, the deadliest day of combat in American history. In \u003ci\u003eOpposing the Second Corps at Antietam\u003c\/i\u003e, Antietam scholar Marion V. Armstrong Jr. completes his magisterial study of Antietam begun in \u003ci\u003eUnfurl Those Colors!\u003c\/i\u003e by examining Robert E. Lee's leadership at the climactic battle in the Confederate invasion of Union territory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eminent Civil War historians consider Antietam the turning point of the war. Hoping to maintain the initiative they had gained at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Confederate leaders looked to a stunning victory on Northern soil to sour Northern sentiment on the war as well as to coax European powers to recognize the fledgling Confederacy. Having examined McClellan's command and role at Antietam in \u003ci\u003eUnfurl Those Colors!\u003c\/i\u003e, Armstrong now recounts in riveting detail Lee's command decisions and their execution in the field, drawing on a superlative collection of first-person accounts by Confederate veterans to narrate the cataclysmic struggle between Lee and McClellan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Armstrong sets the stage with a lively recap of the political and military events leading up to the early fall of 1862 and foreshadowing the conflagration to come on September 17. Each chapter then traces a critical section of the battle, the fight for the West Woods and the bloody engagement of the Sunken Road. Armstrong augments this collection with an exceptional set of maps, which will be valued by scholars, readers, and visitors to the battlefield. These unique maps delineate troop movements in intervals as brief as fifteen minutes, bringing to life the fluid, mutable lines that characterize the glory and horror of Antietam. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Either together with \u003ci\u003eUnfurl Those Colors!\u003c\/i\u003e or as a stand-alone account of the Confederate side of the battle, \u003ci\u003eOpposing the Second Corps at Antietam \u003c\/i\u003eprovides the fullest possible understanding of the experience of Confederate soldiers at Antietam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarion V. Armstrong Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eUnfurl Those Colors: McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a retired US Army reserve officer and teaches history at Middle Tennessee State University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50458371096850,"sku":"9780817361693","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9f661b94-ec3c-4df8-9989-2f7a15e3dff2.jpg?v=1729962246","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/opposing-the-second-corps-at-antietam-the-fight-for-the-confederate-left-and-center-on-americas-bloodiest-day-9780817361693","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}