ISBN-13: 9781636242163
"The extensive use of primary sources makes this book of interest to all Civil War enthusiasts." Library JournalAntietam. For generations of Americans this wordthe name of a bucolic stream in western Marylandheld the same sense of horror and carnage that the simple date 9/11 does for modern America. But Antietam eclipses even this modern tragedy as America's single bloodiest day, on which 22,000 men became casualties in a war to determine our nations future.Antietam is forever burned into the American psyche, a battle bathed in blood that served no military purpose, brought no decisive victory. This much Americans know. What they didn't know is why this is sountil now. The Cornfield Antietam's Bloody Turning Point tells for the first time the full story of the exciting struggle to controlthe Cornfield, the action on which the costly battle of Antietam turned, in a thorough yet readable narrative. It explains what happened in Antietams Cornfield and why. Because Federal and Confederate forces repeatedly traded control of the spot, the fight for the Cornfield is a story of human struggle against fearful odds, of men seeking to do their duty, of simply trying to survive. Many of the included firsthand accounts have never been revealed to modern readers and never have they been assembled in such a comprehensive, readable form.At the same time, The Cornfield offers fresh views of the battle as a whole, arguing that it turned on events in the Cornfield because of two central facts Union General George McClellans linear thinking demanded that the Cornfield must be taken and, because of this, the repeated failure by the generals McClellan charged with fulfilling this task created a self-reinforcing cycle of disaster that doomed the Union's prospects for successat the cost of thousands of lives.The Cornfield offers new perspectives that may be controversialparticularly to those who accept unchallenged the views of the battle's first historians and its generals, who too often sought to shape our understanding for their own purposesbut which are certain to change modern understanding of how the battle of Antietam was fought and its role in American history.
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ISBN-13: 9781636242163
"The extensive use of primary sources makes this book of interest to all Civil War enthusiasts." Library JournalAntietam. For generations of Americans this wordthe name of a bucolic stream in western Marylandheld the same sense of horror and carnage that the simple date 9/11 does for modern America. But Antietam eclipses even this modern tragedy as America's single bloodiest day, on which 22,000 men became casualties in a war to determine our nations future.Antietam is forever burned into the American psyche, a battle bathed in blood that served no military purpose, brought no decisive victory. This much Americans know. What they didn't know is why this is sountil now. The Cornfield Antietam's Bloody Turning Point tells for the first time the full story of the exciting struggle to controlthe Cornfield, the action on which the costly battle of Antietam turned, in a thorough yet readable narrative. It explains what happened in Antietams Cornfield and why. Because Federal and Confederate forces repeatedly traded control of the spot, the fight for the Cornfield is a story of human struggle against fearful odds, of men seeking to do their duty, of simply trying to survive. Many of the included firsthand accounts have never been revealed to modern readers and never have they been assembled in such a comprehensive, readable form.At the same time, The Cornfield offers fresh views of the battle as a whole, arguing that it turned on events in the Cornfield because of two central facts Union General George McClellans linear thinking demanded that the Cornfield must be taken and, because of this, the repeated failure by the generals McClellan charged with fulfilling this task created a self-reinforcing cycle of disaster that doomed the Union's prospects for successat the cost of thousands of lives.The Cornfield offers new perspectives that may be controversialparticularly to those who accept unchallenged the views of the battle's first historians and its generals, who too often sought to shape our understanding for their own purposesbut which are certain to change modern understanding of how the battle of Antietam was fought and its role in American history.
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