Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862An account of the Maryland Campaign of 1862. It focuses on military policy and strategy, examining the context necessary to understand that strategy and the circumstances under which the two commanders, Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan, laboured. |
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Introduction On such a full sea | 1 |
Lees strategic dilemma September 2 | 19 |
Confederate march September 3 | 56 |
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A. P. Hill advance Anderson Antietam Army of Northern arrived artillery attack batteries battle believed Boonsboro brigade Buckeystown Burkittsville Burnside camp capture Carman cavalry chap column Confederacy Confederate army Confederate commander Crampton's Gap crossing the Potomac D. H. Hill Diary dispatch Dunkard Church enemy enemy's expedition fighting flank Ford Fox's Gap Frederick garrison guns Hagerstown Pike Hampton Harpers Ferry headquarters Hooker ibid infantry Jackson Keedysville LaFayette McLaws Lee's Leesburg Longstreet Loudoun Lower Bridge main body Martinsburg Maryland Campaign Maryland Heights McClellan McLaws McLaws's Memoirs miles Monocacy morning move Munford night North Carolina North Carolina Regiments Northern Virginia o'clock orders Pendleton Pleasonton position reached rear reenforcements retreat Richmond Ridge river road rode Second Manassas sent Sept September Sharpsburg Shenandoah Shepherdstown soldiers Sounding the Shallows South Mountain Stonewall strategy Stuart tion troops Turner's Gap turning movement wagons Walker Washington Weverton Williamsport