Faces of Union Soldiers at Antietam

by Joseph Stahl, Matthew Borders

Overview

Join Matthew Borders and Joseph Stahl as they share their expertise and grant glimpses into the lives of those who fought to preserve the Union.

The Battle of Antietam, fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, was the bloodiest day in American history, with more than twenty-three thousand dead, wounded and missing. This book invites the reader to walk the routes of some of the units on the field through the stories of thirty-six individual soldiers who fought on that day. The images of the soldiers in this work, many of which have never been published before, give faces to the fighting men at Antietam, as well as insight into their lives

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467142786
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	07/01/2019
Series:	Civil War Series
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	1,108,688
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.01(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Matthew Borders has an MS in historic preservation. He is a park ranger at Monocacy National Battlefield and is a member of the Save Historic Antietam Foundation and the Frederick County Civil War Round Table. Joseph W. Stahl has an MBA; is retired from the Institute for Defense Analyses; is a member of the Company of Military Historians, Save Historic Antietam Foundation and Hagerstown Civil War Roundtable; and is coauthor of Identification Discs of Union Soldiers in the Civil War. Both authors are NPS Certified Battlefield Guides at Antietam National Battlefield and Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

List of Maps 9

Introduction 11

1 Cornfield 15

2 East Woods 33

3 West Woods 51

4 Sunken Road 69

5 Burnside's Bridge 89

6 Final Attack 105

Epilogue 123

Appendix. Reports 127

Notes 163

Bibliography 173

Index 181

Author Profiles 191