"The Cornfield – Inside the Action at Antietam’s Bloody" Topic
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Tango01 | 06 Jan 2021 10:13 p.m. PST |
… Turning Point "The 12-hour clash created 21,699 casualties, killed 3,654, and turned many innocuous spots around quiet Sharpsburg, Maryland into national icons of death and suffering, including the Burnside Bridge, the Sunken Road, the West Woods, and the Cornfield. Although the human cost and sacrifice connected with each of these locations justify their respective infamy, one area of the battlefield in particular stands out for both its decisiveness to events of that day and for the scale of bloodshed it witnessed. That place is Antietam's famous Cornfield. For many years the action fought in and around David and Margaret Miller's cornfield was known but little understood. This is due in part to the swirling complexity of the fighting there. Lacking easily-defined narratives and clear, distinct troop movements, the Cornfield action was long glossed over by Antietam's historians and storytellers, who treated it as a generic back-and-forth slugfest before moving on to recounting the battle's many other, more easily understood actions like the Sunken Road or Burnside's Bridge. Lost, too, was the Cornfield's impact on Antietam's other actions and final outcome…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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