The Antietam Campaign

Contents

Contents Introduction ix The Net Result of the Campaign Was in Our Favor Confederate Reaction to the Maryland Campaign 3 GARY W. GALLAGHER General McClellan's Bodyguard The Army of the Potomac after Antietam 44 BROOKS D. SIMPSON Maryland, Our Maryland Or How Lincoln and His Army Helped to Define the Confederacy 74 WILLIAM A. BLAIR Dirty, Ragged, and Ill-Provided For Confederate Logistical Problems in the 1862 Maryland Campaign and Their Solutions 101 KEITH S. BOHANNON Who Would Not Be a Soldier The Volunteers of'62 in the Maryland Campaign 143 D. SCOTT HARTWIG All Who Went into That Battle Were Heroes Remembering the i6th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers at Antietam 169 LESLEY J. GORDON Defending Lee's Flank J. E. B. Stuart,John Pelham, and Confederate Artillery on Nicodemus Heights 192 ROBERT E. L. KRICK Vlll Contents It Appeared As Though MutualExtermination Would Put a Stop to the Awful Carnage Confederates in Sharpsburg's Bloody Lane 223 ROBERT K. KRICK We Don't KnowWhat on Earth to Do with Him William Nelson Pendletori and the Affair at Shepherdstown, September 19,1862 259 PETER S. CARMICHAEL From Antietamto the Argonne The Maryland Campaign's Lessons for Future Leaders of the American Expeditionary Force 289 CAROL REARDON Bibliographic Essay 317 Contributors 321 Index 323 ...