Miller Cornfield at Antietam: The Civil War's Bloodiest Combat

by Phillip Thomas Tucker, Phd

Overview

On September 17, 1862, the forces of Major General George B. McClellan and his Union Army of the Potomac confronted Robert E. Lee's entire Army of Northern Virginia at the Battle of Antietam in Sharpsburg, Maryland. The Union forces mounted a powerful assault on Lee's left flank in the idyllic Miller Cornfield. It was the single bloodiest day in the history of the Civil War. The elite combat units of the Union's Iron Brigade and the Confederate Texas Brigade held a dramatic showdown and suffered immense losses through vicious attacks and counterattacks sweeping through the cornstalks. Author Phillip Thomas Tucker reveals the triumph and tragedy of the greatest sacrifice of life of any battleground in America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781540216816
Publisher:	History Press Library Editions
Publication date:	06/26/2017
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Phillip Thomas Tucker, Ph.D., has been recognized as "the Stephen King of History." Tucker has authored more than 70 groundbreaking books in history and more than 130 works, both books and scholarly articles, in total in the field of history. After earning a Ph.D. in History from St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1990, the author embarked upon a more than 20-year career with the Department of Defense primarily in Washington, D.C. Dr. Tucker has specialized on a wide variety of aspects of the American experience. He has focused heavily on some of the most iconic moments in the annals of American history, including books like Alexander Hamilton's Revolution, Death at the Little Bighorn, and How the Irish Won the American Revolution. In addition, the author has also written a great deal about the lives of remarkable African Americans and dynamic women of all colors, who deserve greater recognition for their outstanding courage and character at this late date. He has written four volumes of the groundbreaking Harriet Tubman Series and four volumes of the Cathy Williams Female Buffalo Soldier Series. Other books by one of America's most prolific authors include Mulan and the Modern Controversary and Exodus From the Alamo, The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth. Tucker lives and writes full-time at his home in Central Florida.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

1 The Ill-Fated Invasion of Maryland 19

2 The Texas Brigade's Supreme Challenge on America's Bloodiest Day 38

3 Saving the Day at Antietam 93

4 Tenacious Last Stand at the Cornfield's Northern Edge 140

Bitter Epilogue 195

Appendix. Order of Battle 211

Notes 233

Index 251

About the Author 256