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    The Maps of Antietam: The Siege and Capture of Harpers Ferry, September 12-15, 1862
    The Maps of Antietam: The Siege and Capture of Harpers Ferry, September 12-15, 1862
    The Maps of Antietam: The Siege and Capture of Harpers Ferry, September 12-15, 1862
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    The Maps of Antietam: The Siege and Capture of Harpers Ferry, September 12-15, 1862

    By Bradley M. Gottfried

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    The Maps of Antietam: An Atlas of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign is the eagerly awaited companion volume to Bradley M. Gottfried’s bestselling The Maps of Gettysburg (2007) and The Maps of First Bull Run (2009), part of the ongoing Savas Beatie Military Atlas Series.

    Now available as an ebook short, The Maps of Antietam: The Siege and Capture of Harpers Ferry, September 12-15, 1862, plows new ground in the study of the campaign by breaking down the entire campaign in 10 detailed full page original maps. These cartographic creations bore down to the regimental level, offering students of the campaign a unique and fascinating approach to studying what may have been the climactic battle of the war.

    The Maps of Antietam: The Siege and Capture of Harpers Ferry, September 12-15, 1862 offers one “action-section”:

    - The Capture of Harpers Ferry

    Gottfried’s original maps enrich each map section. Keyed to each piece of cartography is detailed text about the units, personnel, movements, and combat (including quotes from eyewitnesses) that make the Antietam story come alive. This presentation allows readers to easily and quickly find a map and text on virtually any portion of the campaign. Serious students of the battle will appreciate the extensive endnotes and will want to take this book with them on their trips to the battlefield.

    Perfect for the easy chair or for walking hallowed ground, The Maps of Antietam is a seminal work that, like his earlier Gettysburg and First Bull Run studies, belongs on the bookshelf of every serious and casual student of the Civil War.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSavas Beatie
    Release dateSep 11, 2013
    ISBN9781611211689
    The Maps of Antietam: The Siege and Capture of Harpers Ferry, September 12-15, 1862
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    Bradley M. Gottfried

    Bradley M. Gottfried served as a college educator for over 40 years before he retired in 2017. After receiving his doctorate, he was a full-time faculty member for 11 years and then entered the administrator ranks, rising to the position of president, serving for 17 years in this position at two colleges. His interest in the Civil War began when he was a youngster in the Philadelphia area. He has written 19 books on the Civil War, including a number on Gettysburg and map studies of various campaigns. A resident of the Chambersburg/Gettysburg, Pennsylvania area, Brad is an Antietam Licensed Battlefield Guide and a Gettysburg Licensed Town Guide.

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      Book preview

      The Maps of Antietam - Bradley M. Gottfried

      © 2012 by Bradley M. Gottfried

      The Maps of Antietam: The Siege and Capture of Harpers Ferry, September 12-15, 1862

      All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress.

      ISBN-13: 978-1-61121-168-9

      ePub ISBN:9781611211689

      First Edition, First Printing

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      To my darling wife, Linda

      Contents

      Introduction

      Foreword by Thomas G. Clemens

      Map Set 8. The Capture of Harpers Ferry

      (September 12 - 15)

      Map 8.1: Strategic Complications (September 12: Morning)

      Map 8.2: The Federal Deployments (September 12: Afternoon)

      Map 8.3: The Opening Fight for Maryland Heights

      (September 13: 6:30 - 11:30 a.m.)

      Map 8.4: Maryland Heights Falls (September 13: 11:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)

      Map 8.5: Jackson Closes the Loop (September 13)

      Map 8.6: Both Sides Prepare for Action

      (September 14: 7:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.)

      Map 8.7: Confederate Artillery Opens

      (September 14: 2:00 - 9:00 p.m.)

      Map 8.8: The Confederate Vice Closes; Federal Cavalry Prepares to Escape

      (September 15: 3:00 - 7:00 a.m.)

      Map 8.9: Federal Cavalry Breaks Out (September 15: 3:00 - 7:00 a.m.)

      Map 8.10: The Garrison Falls (September 15: 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.)

      Appendix 1: Orders of Battle

      Appendix 2: An Interview with Author Bradley M. Gottfried

      Endnotes

      Bibliography

      Index

      Introduction

      What began several years ago with an idea to better visualize and understand the Battle of Gettysburg and the major campaigns in the Eastern Theater has developed into several volumes that are now part of the Savas Beatie Military Atlas series—a significant effort to research and illustrate the major campaigns of the Civil War in an original and useful manner. My initial effort in 2007 resulted in The Maps of Gettysburg, which spawned a second book two years later entitled The Maps of First Bull Run. Soon after the Gettysburg volume appeared my publisher expressed an interest in expanding the series to the Western campaigns. I agreed it was a good idea, but because my interest lies in the East, other historians would have to be brought aboard to assist. The first two were David Powell and David Friedrichs, who collaborated to produce The Maps of Chickamauga in 2009, the same year my First Bull Run study appeared. Other Western Theater campaign studies for this series are in the works, as are atlas books dealing with Napoleon’s 1812 invasion of Russia and various World War II campaigns. This is personally pleasing, for as so many people have shared with me, the only way you can really understand a military campaign is through maps, and this presentation unlocks other books on the same subjects.

      All this explains why the book you hold in your hands, The Maps of Antietam: An Atlas of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign, Including the Battle of South Mountain, September 2 - 20, 1862, is my third effort but the fourth volume in this ongoing atlas series. My next volume, much of which is complete as of the date of this writing, covers the interesting but usually overlooked months following Gettysburg through the end of 1863 and into early 1864, including the campaigns of Bristoe Station and Mine Run and the various ancillary operations that took place during that period. The volume thereafter opens the Overland Campaign, with coverage of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania. Although I am not producing these in chronological order, it is my sincere hope that I will one day complete the major Civil War campaigns in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War from 1861-1865.

      The Maps of Antietam is neutral in coverage and includes the entire campaign from both points of view. The text and maps cover the movement of the armies from the beginning of the campaign in early September to the battlefields in the various gaps slicing through South Mountain, the fascinating siege of Harpers Ferry, the maneuvering to the vicinity of Sharpsburg, and to the dramatic climax of the operation along Antietam Creek on September 17. The final segment of the book covers the withdrawal of Lee’s army into Virginia and the fighting at Shepherdstown on September 19-20. As anyone who is familiar with this series will attest, the purpose of these atlas books is to offer a broad and full understanding of the complete campaign, rather than a micro-history of a particular event or day.

      To my knowledge, no single source until now has pulled together the myriad of movements and events of this mammoth campaign and offered it in a cartographic form side-by-side with reasonably detailed text complete with endnotes. Like the books that have come before, The Maps of Antietam dissects the actions within each sector of a battlefield for a deeper and hopefully more meaningful understanding and reading experience. Each section of this book includes a number of text and map combinations. Every left-hand page includes descriptive text corresponding with a facing original map on the right-hand page. One of the key advantages of this presentation is that it eliminates the need to flip through the book to try to find a map to match the text. Some sections, like the preliminary operations (September 13-14) immediately leading up to the fighting at South Mountain are short and required only two maps and two text pages. Others, like the fighting for the Sunken Road on September 17 at Antietam, required eight maps and their corresponding eight text pages. Wherever possible, I utilized firsthand accounts to personalize the otherwise straightforward text. I hope readers find this method of presentation useful.

      As I have written in previous introductions, the plentiful maps and sectioned coverage make it much easier to follow and understand what was happening each day (and in some cases, each hour) of this complex campaign. The various sections may also trigger a special interest and so pry open avenues ripe for additional study. I am hopeful that readers who approach the subject with a higher level of expertise will find the maps and text not only interesting to study and read, but truly helpful. If someone, somewhere, places this book within reach to refer to it now and again as a reference guide while reading other studies on the campaign, the long hours invested in this project will have been worthwhile.

      And now, a few caveats are in order. The Maps of Antietam is not the last word or definitive treatment of the campaign, the various battles, or any part thereof—nor did I intend it to be. Given space and time considerations, I decided to cover the major events of the campaign and battles, with smaller transition sections to flesh out the full campaign story. As a result, many aspects of the campaign are purposely not fleshed out deeply. For example, I included a light overview of the loss and discovery of General Lee’s Special Orders No. 191, but not a detailed explanation of how they were lost and who might have mishandled them. The importance to this book is that these important orders were written, lost, found, and utilized. The endnotes offer additional avenues of study on this and other interesting but tangential matters.

      Original research was kept to a minimum. My primary reliance was upon firsthand accounts and battle reports, followed by quality secondary scholarship. Therefore, there are no new theories or evaluations of why the campaign or battles unfolded as they did. I am also very familiar with the battlefields described in this study and have walked them many times over

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