Unfurl Those Colors! provides an operational study of the Army of the Potomac during the pivotal Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, illuminating in details that will fascinate scholars and armchair generals alike US army commander George B. McClellan's command decisions and how those decisions were carried out in the middle and lower ranks of the Second Army Corps. Armstrong offers the most comprehensive account yet of the Second Army Corps's fight at Antietam, including Sedgwick's division in the West Woods and French's and Richardson's divisions at Bloody Land. He offers a fresh reappraisal of the leadership of Bostonian Edwin V. "Bull Head" Sumner as the only federal corps commander who doggedly and accurately carried out McClellan's battle plan and effectively directed the battle on the Federal right. Many esteemed Civil War historians consider Antietam a watershed moment in the Civil War, a crucial success after which Abraham Lincoln was emboldened to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Unfurl Those Colors! offers a vital examination of the operational fabric of the Army of the Potomac's leadership and command in one of the most important days in American history.
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TitleUnfurl Those Colors: McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign
AuthorMarion V. Armstrong
BindingHardcover
EditionFirst Edition
Pages424
Volumes1
LanguageENG
PublisherUniversity Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL
Date2008-03
IllustratedYes
ISBN9780817316006 / 0817316000
Weight1.71 lbs (0.78 kg)
Dimensions9.31 x 6.33 x 1.37 in(23.65 x 16.08 x 3.48 cm)
Themes
Chronological Period: 1851-1899
Geographic Orientation: Maryland
Topical: Civil War
Library of Congress subjectsUnited States, Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
Library of Congress Catalog Number2007032092
Dewey Decimal Code973.733
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Marion V. Armstrong Jr. is a retired U.S. Army reserve officer and teaches history at colleges in middle Tennessee.
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University Alabama Press, 2008-03-26. 2nd. Hardcover. Good. hardcover with dust jacket, tight, bright, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, sunned dust jacket spine, ex-library copy with usual library markings and mylar cover with top layer removed leaving the underlayment beneath the dust jacket, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders
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University Alabama Press, 2008-03-26. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 9x6x1. Dust jacket is clean but shows a little light rubbing around edges and a faint moisture mark along top near spine. Book has a good binding and crisp, unmarked pages. A couple of miniscule spots on page edges. HB HS
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