I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign (D. Scott Hartwig - CWC) postcard 320 sets of Confederate remains

320 sets of Confederate remains and shipped them South between 1871–1873

Detailed and extensively illustrated with over 160 photographs

2 million acres of state forest around Pennsylvania

Edna Greene Medford (Foreword)

Lizzie Brick

I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign (D. Scott Hartwig - CWC) postcard 320 sets of Confederate remainsby D. Scott Hartwig The memory of the Battle of Antietam was so haunting that when, nine months later, Major Rufus Dawes learned another Antietam battle might be on the horizon, he wrote, "I hope not, I dread the thought of the place." In this definitive account, historian D. Scott Hartwig chronicles the single bloodiest day in American history, which resulted in 23,000 casualties. The Battle of Antietam marked a vital turning point in the war: