The Gleam Of Bayonets: The Battle Of Antietam And Robert E. Lee's Maryland Campaign, September 1862
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
In the blood-soaked fields of western Maryland on September 17, 1862, the fate of the Confederacy — and perhaps the entire American republic — hung in the balance. The Gleam of Bayonets chronicles the harrowing details of the Battle of Antietam, the single deadliest day in American military history, presenting a masterful account of General Robert E. Lee's audacious Maryland Campaign and the desperate Union struggle under General George B. McClellan to halt the Confederate advance onto Northern soil. James V. Murfin reconstructs the campaign with meticulous precision, drawing on primary sources, battlefield accounts, and strategic analyses to illustrate how a series of fateful decisions — and one extraordinary stroke of luck in the discovery of Lee's lost orders — shaped the outcome of the engagement. Murfin's narrative achieves a rare balance between grand strategic vision and the visceral, human experience of soldiers on both sides, immersing the reader in the chaos and courage of mid-nineteenth-century warfare. The work argues persuasively that Antietam was not merely a tactical standoff but a decisive turning point that denied the Confederacy European recognition and set the stage for Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Written with the authority of a scholar and the pace of a storyteller, this richly detailed study remains an essential volume for anyone seeking to understand the pivotal forces that determined the course of the American Civil War — and leaves one to wonder just how differently history might have unfolded had Lee's orders never been found.
Author: James V. Murfin
Format: Hardback
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
In the blood-soaked fields of western Maryland on September 17, 1862, the fate of the Confederacy — and perhaps the entire American republic — hung in the balance. The Gleam of Bayonets chronicles the harrowing details of the Battle of Antietam, the single deadliest day in American military history, presenting a masterful account of General Robert E. Lee's audacious Maryland Campaign and the desperate Union struggle under General George B. McClellan to halt the Confederate advance onto Northern soil. James V. Murfin reconstructs the campaign with meticulous precision, drawing on primary sources, battlefield accounts, and strategic analyses to illustrate how a series of fateful decisions — and one extraordinary stroke of luck in the discovery of Lee's lost orders — shaped the outcome of the engagement. Murfin's narrative achieves a rare balance between grand strategic vision and the visceral, human experience of soldiers on both sides, immersing the reader in the chaos and courage of mid-nineteenth-century warfare. The work argues persuasively that Antietam was not merely a tactical standoff but a decisive turning point that denied the Confederacy European recognition and set the stage for Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Written with the authority of a scholar and the pace of a storyteller, this richly detailed study remains an essential volume for anyone seeking to understand the pivotal forces that determined the course of the American Civil War — and leaves one to wonder just how differently history might have unfolded had Lee's orders never been found.