Such a Clash of Arms

A fully illustrated narrative of the Maryland campaign 1862, culminating in Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American military history.By the late summer of 1862, it appeared as though the United States would be permanently split in two, and by the beginning of September, General Robert E. Lee''s Army of Northern Virginia was on the doorstep of Washington, D.C. Panicked and defeated Federal s...