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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam

by James M. McPherson · 2002

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In September 1862, two armies met near Sharpsburg, Maryland, along a creek called Antietam. The fighting that followed proved the costliest single day of combat the country had ever seen. This history follows the campaign that brought Union and Confederate forces to that farmland, the decisions made by commanders on both sides, and the human toll felt by soldiers and by the civilians living around the battlefield. The author places the clash within the wider struggle over slavery and the Union, showing how one day of fighting shaped the course of the war and the choices that came after it.

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