The Cornfield: Antietam's Bloody Turning Point

"The extensive use of primary sources makes this book of interest to all Civil War enthusiasts." — Library Journal

Antietam. For generations of Americans this word—the name of a bucolic stream in western Maryland—held the same sense of horror and carnage that the simple date 9/11 does for modern America. But Antietam eclipses even this modern tragedy as America's single bloodiest day, on which 22,000 men became casualties in a war to determine our nation’s future.

Antietam is forever burned i...