The Antietam Campaign was a bizarre conflict marked by brilliance and ineptitude, incidents of chance, stunning bravery and useless slaughter.

On jacket: The Antietam campaign, July-November 1862.

Preliminaries : 26 June-11 August, 1862 -- Returning to Manassas : 12-28 August, 1862 -- Second Manassas : 29-30 August, 1862 -- Into Maryland : 31 August-10 September, 1862 -- "The best laid plans ..." : 10-13 September, 1862 -- TO the Antietam : 14-16 September, 1862 -- Attack of the I and XII Corps : 16-17 September, 1862 -- Advance of the II Corps : 17 September, 1862 -- Burnside's Bridge : 17 September, 1862 -- Lee retreats : 18 September-November, 1862.