Landscape Turned Red

“The best account of the Battle of Antietam” from t he award-winning, national bestselling author of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville ( The New York Times Book Review ). The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation’s history: in this single day, the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. In Landscape Turned Red , the renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries, dispatches, and letters to recreate t