A review by dhillinck
The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution by Richard Slotkin

5.0

The author does an exceptionally fine job of weaving together the political, strategic, operational and tactical elements of the Antietam campaign. He makes a good case for his argument that 1862 marked the moment when Union war aims became revolutionary (a distinction often reserved for 1863). His analysis of the struggle for power between Lincoln and McClellan is particularly well considered. I learned a lot from the book.