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Antietam, South Mountain & Harpers Ferry: A Battlefield Guide by Ethan S. Rafuse, Bison Books, 2008, $21.95 “Now I know what to do!” Major General George B. McClellan reportedly exclaimed when handed a lost copy of Robert E. Lee’s Special Order No. 191 detailing movements for the Confederate army’s invasion of the North in September …
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