NEW The History Press The Battle of Glendale, VA 9781626198920 Civil War Series

NEW The History Press The Battle of Glendale, VA 9781626198920 Civil War Series By late June 1862, the Union army, under George B. McClellan, stood at the doorstep of Richmond. Lee recognized an opportunity to seal a decisive victory and commanded his Army of Northern Virginia to prevent the Union forces from retreating.

Miller Cornfield at Antietam, Maryland, Civil War Series, Paperback

Miller Cornfield at Antietam, Maryland, Civil War Series, Paperback Author Phillip Thomas Tucker reveals the triumph and tragedy of the greatest sacrifice of life of any battleground in America.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.