Unfurl Those Colors! McClellan, Sumner, & the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign examines the operational fabric of leadership and command in the Army of the Potomac during one of the most critical campaigns and battles of the Civil War. This book constitutes an operational study of the Army of the Potomac during this campaign and battle, carefully documenting the command decisions of army commander George B. McClellan and following the execution of those decisions through the corps level of command and down to the ordinary soldier in the Second Army Corps. It details as no previous account has the fighting of the Second Army Corps at Antietam to include Sedgwick's division in the West Woods and French's and Richardson's divisions at Bloody Lane. Author: Marion V. Armstrong Jr. Hardcover 313 Pages with additional sections of Notes, Selected Bibliography, and Index. |
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