Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
From the Publisher
The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam
Creek. Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation's history: On
this single day, the battle 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 the vivid drama of Antietam as experienced not only by its
leaders but also by its soldiers, both Union and Confederate.
Combining brilliant military analysis with narrative history of
enormous power, Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on
this climatic and bitter struggle.
Aspiring Writers
B Oates is a very readable and enjoyable book about the real
person Clara Barton. She began going onto the battle field with
other women to treat wounded and dying soldiers. This was
unheard of before. Women nurses were considered to be
someone for "reputable women" to not keep company with. If not
for Clara Barton and her ground breaking efforts there may not be
a Red Cross today. She made a definite change in all soldiers lives
all over the world then and now. I highly recommend reading this
book.
Please visit this site for additional information about women in the
Civil War.
http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/chesnut.asp
The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry: From Whitman to Walcott
Beautifully assembled by Richard Marius, the poetry here includes
classic works by well-known poets, rare period pieces by
African-Americans and women, and northern and southern
patriotic verse and songs. An eloquent commemoration of the
American Civil War. 53 photographs.
From the Publisher
From the time of the conflict to the present day, the Civil War has
been engraved in the collective memory of Americans, inspiring a
legion of poetic sentiments from Union and Confederate soldiers,
as well as from America's finest men and women poets both
black and white. Nineteenth-century poets such as Walt Whitman
and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote notable works on a subject all
too close to their hearts and minds; but so too have such
formidable recent writers as John Updike and Derek Walcott.
Yet this rich tradition of Civil War poetry - spanning more than a
century and a half - has never before been chronicled in one
comprehensive volume. Collected here are the horrors of the war,
the common nobility of the soldiers taking part, the moral fervor
of abolition, the eerie stillness of the field after battle, and
Lincoln's legacy - all recorded in verse and dramatically illustrated
by photographs from the Matthew Brady Collection of the
National Archives. Artfully assembled by Richard Marius, noted
novelist and historian, The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry
includes the classics of the genre as well as rare period pieces by
African Americans and women, and northern and southern
patriotic verse and songs. Marius paints the background of the
conflict and its literature in his lively introduction, and prefaces
each poem with a compelling vignette. What emerges from these
pages is a deep sense of the anger of the war's participants, their
yearning for peace, and overall an unparalleled pageant of the war
in all its power and sentimentality. The Columbia Book of Civil
War Poetry is a unique anthology that collectors, gift-givers, and
general readers fascinated by American lore will all appreciate. It
is an eloquent, original commemoration of the American Civil
War, captured in meter and light.