Showing Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears

Paperback. Pub Date: June. 2003 Pages: 464 Publisher: Mariner Books The Civil War battle waged on September 17. 1862 at Antietam Creek Maryland was one of the bloodiest in the NATION's History: in this single day. The war claimed nearly 23.000 casualties. In Landscape Turned Red. the renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries. dispatches. and letters to recreate the vivid drama of Antietam as experienced not only by its leaders but also by its soldiers. both Union and Confederate. Combining illiant military analysis with narrative history of enormous power. Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on this climactic and bitter struggle.