Crossroads of Freedom
Antietam

A New Birth Of Freedom And Its Cost On September 17, 1862, the Army of the Potomac commanded by General George B. McClellan met the Army of Northern Virginia commanded by Robert E. Lee in the fields near Sharpsburg, Maryland. The result was the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American histor......more

Earlier in the book, I was tempted to give this 4 stars, but as the book raced (as in whoosh) to an end, I simply felt way too much ground was being covered in too short a space (156 pages, excluding endnotes, etc.). On the good side, Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam is a marvel of economy. McPherson......more

Crossing the Potomac River into Maryland, Robert E. Lee might well have thought of Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon – passing a point of no return. As Caesar knew that taking his army into Italy proper would mark a new phase in Rome’s civil war, so Lee knew that, leading his Confederate Army of No......more