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9780195173307

Crossroads of Freedom Antietam

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195173307

  • ISBN10:

    0195173309

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-04-29
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian McPherson offers a masterful portrait of the bloodiest single day in American history, the Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862.

Author Biography


James M. McPherson is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History at Princeton University. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, which was a New York Times bestseller, and the Lincoln Prize for For Cause and Comrades. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

LIST OF MAPS xi
EDITOR'S NOTE xiii
PREFACE xv
INTRODUCTION Death in September 3(8)
1 The Pendulum of War 1861-1862 11(30)
2 Taking Off the Kid Gloves June July 1862 41(32)
3 "The Federals Got a Very Complete Smashing" August-September 1862 73(24)
4 Showdown at Sharpsburg 97(36)
5 The Beginning of the End 133(24)
NOTES 157(28)
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY 185(6)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 191(2)
INDEX 193

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