Rabu, 20 September 2017

CWT Book Review: The Battle of South Mountain

The Battle of South Mountain by John David Hoptak, The History Press  It seems almost futile to hope that the impressive scholarship on the Maryland Campaign produced in the past few years might bring the events of September 1862 out of the shadow of the Army of Northern Virginia’s second excursion north of the Potomac …

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