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Any books anyone would recommend to read up on the battle?

Jeff

An excellent single volume is Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam. His works on Chancellorsville, the Peninisular Campaign, and Gettysburg (each single volumes) are also terrific in my view.

wde348

Ordered

Might get here before the expansion pack ...

Here's another one I'd recommend:

http://www.amazon.com/Antietam-Soldiers ... 0195084667

I highly agree with Amish John on this one.
Antietam A soldiers battle is problably the best
boots on the ground civil war book I have read.

I very much second the Stephen W. Sears recommendation.

Henry Kyd Douglas's "I Rode With Stonewall" also gives a great account of the battle from the perspective of one of Jackson's staff officers.

Here's another one I'd recommend:

http://www.amazon.com/Antietam-Soldiers ... 0195084667

I cannot possibly recommend this more, it will give you a perspective like none other.

Thank you all!

Off to the online bookshops again

Some other good books on Antietam:

1) A Gleam of Bayonets by James Murfin

2) The Antietam Campaign by Gary Gallagher

3) Antietam: Essays on the 1862 Maryland Campaign.

If you ever get the chance you should visit the battlefield. It is wonderfully maintained and less touristy than Gettysburg. It's hard to believe so many men died in such a short time in such a small area.

Regards, CJ

I highly agree with Amish John on this one.
Antietam A soldiers battle is problably the best
boots on the ground civil war book I have read.

That book was one of our sources for scenario design. It's a good one.