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Connecticut Yankees at Antietam (Civil War Series)

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September 17, 1862–The Battle of Antietam used to be the single bloodiest day of the Civil War. Within the intense conflict and its aftermath around the farm fields and woodlots near the village of Sharpsburg, Maryland, more than two hundred men from Connecticut died. Their grave sites are scattered all over the Nutmeg State, from Willington to Madison and Brooklyn to Bristol. Writer John Banks chronicles their most commonly forgotten stories the use of diaries, pension records and soldiers’ letters. Learn of Henry Adams, a twenty-two-year-old private from East Windsor who lay incapacitated Within the cornfield for just about two days before he used to be found; Private Horace Lay of Hartford, who died together with his wife by his side in a small church that served as a hospital after the battle; and Captain Frederick Barber of Manchester, who survived a field operation only to die days later. Discover the stories of these and lots of more brave Yankees who fought Within the fields of Antietam.

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