Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862

Harsh, Joseph L.

ISBN 10: 0873386310 / ISBN 13: 9780873386319

Published by The Kent State University Press, Kent, 1999

About this Item

Signed by Author on half-title page - Book itself like new inside and out except for light handling wear at text block edges and faint interior toning. Dust jacket like new with only faint wear. 1st printing.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1749489311931

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862
• Publisher: The Kent State University Press, Kent
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873386310
• ISBN 13: 9780873386319
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Complementing Confederate Tide Rising, which covers the origins of the Maryland campaign, Taken at the Flood is a detailed account of the military campaign itself. It focuses on military policy and strategy and the context necessary to understand that strategy. A fair appraisal of the campaign requires a full appraisal of the circumstances under which the two commanders, Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan, labored. Harsh attempts to discover what they believed their responsibilities were and what they tried to accomplish; to evaluate the human and logistical resources at their disposal; and to determine what they knew and when the learned it.

Antietam has languished in the long, obscuring shadow cast by Gettysburg. Harsh advocates rethinking the Maryland campaign and promotes the argument that Antietam was one of the most interesting, critical, and potentially enlightening episodes in U.S. history.

About the Authors

Joseph L. Harsh is a professor and former chair of history at George Mason University in Virginia. He is founding president of the Northern Virginia Association of Historians.

Joseph L. Harsh is a professor and former chair of history at George Mason University. He is the author of Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862 (The Kent State University Press, 1998).