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Landscape Turned Red : The Battle of Antietam
Landscape Turned Red The Battle of Antietam Author:Stephen Sears The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation's history: in this single day, the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. With the possible exception of Gettysburg, it the most pivotal battle of the Civil War. The death count from the Battle of Antietam was the largest of any s... more »ingle battle in American history. Landscape Turned Red, winner of the Fletcher Platt Award for best non-fiction book about the American Civil War, is the definitive work on this bitter battle.
In Landscape Turned Red, the renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries, dispatches, and letters to recreate the vivid drama of Antietam as experienced not only by its leaders but also by its soldiers, both Union and Confederate. Combining brilliant military analysis with narrative history of enormous power, Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on this climactic and bitter struggle.
"Draws on a new body of material...an exact historian, Mr. Sears has the novelist's eye for illuminating all that was awesome and pitiable in that furious encounter." (The New York Times)
Winner of the 1983 Fletcher Pratt Award from the New York Civil War Round Table.« less