The Lower Battlefield of Antietam: The Forgotten Front of America's Bloodiest Day [Paperback]

While Antietam remains one the most famous engagements of the Civil War, history largely overlooks the lower end of the battlefield.

Only here did the Confederates use Antietam Creek as a barrier, so it was the only place where Union troops had to force their way across. Here the Union army waged its final attack, and the Confederates launched their last counterattack led by A.P. Hills division. It might as well have been a different battle entirely from the more famed northern field.

Using dozens of journals, diaries, newspaper accounts and reports, author Robert M. Dunkerly examines the action in detail and explores the gradual preservation of this oft-neglected portion of Americas bloodiest battle.

Robert M. Dunkerly is a historian who is active in historic preservation. He has authored seventeen books about the American Revolution, Civil War and other topics. Dunkerly has served as president of the Richmond Civil War Round Table, taught classes at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture and Central Virginia Community College and writes for the?Emerging Civil War?and?Revolutionary War?blogs. He has visited more than one thousand battlefields worldwide.

An Untold Story of a Historic Battle

"Dunkerly deserves credit for calling much-needed attention to this decisive final attack at Antietam." Thomas G. Clemens,The Civil War Monitor