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These men adorned their own caps with bucktails and were thus set apart from the typical Federal soldier by their distinctive plumage

they directly faulted him for not supporting Jubal Early’s division in a night attack on Cemetery Hill that nearly succeeded in decisively turning the enemy’s flank

and the inner circle of advisers– that shaped Jackson’s private world through years of storm and victory

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I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign (D. Scott Hartwig - CWC) brooch attack are examinedby D. Scott Hartwig The memory of the Battle of Antietam was so haunting that when, nine months later, Major Rufus Dawes learned another Antietam battle might be on the horizon, he wrote, "I hope not, I dread the thought of the place." In this definitive account, historian D. Scott Hartwig chronicles the single bloodiest day in American history, which resulted in 23,000 casualties. The Battle of Antietam marked a vital turning point in the war: