Crossroads of Freedom : Antietam (9780195173307)

The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. In Crossroads of Freedom, America's most eminent Civil War historian, James M. McPherson, paints a masterful account of this pivotal battle, the events that led up to it, and its aftermath. As McPherson shows, by September 1862 the survival of the United States was in doubt. The Union had suffered a string of defeats, and Robert E. Lee's army was in Maryland, poised to threaten Washington. The British government was openly talking of recognizing the Confederacy and brokering a peace between North and South. Northern armies and voters were demoralized. And Lincoln had shelved his proposed edict of emancipation months before, waiting for a victory that had not come--that some thought would never come. Both Confederate and Union troops knew the war was at a crossroads, that they were marching toward a decisive battle. It came along the ridges and in the woods and cornfields between Antietam Creek and the Potomac River. Valor, misjudgment, an

Product details

• Format Paperback | 220 pages
• Dimensions 143 x 226 x 19mm | 321g
• Publication date 01 Jul 2004
• Publisher Oxford University Press Australia
• Imprint OUP Australia and New Zealand
• Publication City/Country Melbourne, Australia
• Language English
• Edition New edition
• Edition Statement New edition
• Illustrations note numerous halftones and maps
• ISBN10 0195173309
• ISBN13 9780195173307
• Bestsellers rank 1,468,442

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