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American Civil War
American military tradition
and animal remains
antietam
army
Author_Marion V. Armstrong
Battle flags
Battlefield engagement
Bonds among soldiers
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ceramic
civil war
civil war history
Civil War memory
Civil War regiments
civil war strategy
Collective sacrifice
Colors as identity
Combat experience
Combat motivation
confederacy
confederate history
Courage under fire
Defending the flag in battle
emancipation
Emotional life of soldiers
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Flags and banners
Honor and sacrifice
Honor on the battlefield
Identity forged in war
Infantry tactics
Line of battle
Meaning behind Civil War colors
Meaning-making in war
Memory and commemoration
Military ceremony
Military leadership
Military symbols
Nineteenth-century warfare
plant
Rallying around the colors
Regimental colors
Ritual and tradition
Shared identity in combat
slavery
Soldier identity
south
southern history
Standards and ensigns
Symbolic objects in war
Symbols soldiers fought for
The emotional power of flags
Union and Confederate armies
Unit cohesion
Visual symbols of loyalty
war
War and national identity
Wartime morale
Product details
- ISBN 9780817316006
- Weight: 783g
- Dimensions: 160 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 26 Mar 2008
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This title presents a detailed account of the battle of Antietam that clarifies the epic struggle.""Unfurl Those Colors!"" examines the operational fabric of leadership and command in the Army of the Potomac during one of the most critical campaigns and battles of the Civil War. The Battle of Antietam remains ""the bloodiest single day of combat in American history"" with over 5,000 killed, 20,000 wounded, and 3,000 missing. Many eminent Civil War historians consider it the turning point of the war. As a result of the perceived Federal success at Antietam, Abraham Lincoln was able to issue the Emancipation Proclamation to make the war about ending slavery and terminating any hope of European recognition for the South.This book constitutes an operational study of the Army of the Potomac during this campaign and battle, carefully documenting the command decisions of army commander George B. McClellan and following the execution of those decisions through the corps level of command and down to the ordinary soldier in the Second Army Corps. It reappraises the leadership and decisions of Edwin V. Sumner during the battle of Antietam as the one federal corps commander who was steadfast in carrying out McClellan's plan of battle and effectively directed the battle on the Federal right. It details as no previous account has the fighting of the Second Army Corps at Antietam to include Sedgwick's division in the West Woods and French's and Richardson's divisions at Bloody Land.
Marion V. Armstrong Jr. is a retired U.S. Army reserve officer and teaches history at colleges in middle Tennessee.
