ECW Podcast: I Dread the Thought of the Place (with Scott Hartwig)
Scott Hartwig’s “I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign” is the recipient of the 2024 Emerging Civil War Book Award. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation about the book, the battle, and the leaders who brought the armies to the banks of Antietam Creek.
Co-hosted by Chris Mackowski and a revolving cadre of ECW’s contributors, The Emerging Civil War Podcast taps into an award-winning line-up of historians from a wide variety of backgrounds with a wide variety of interests on a wide variety of topics.
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McClellan was not the only one who believed Lee’s army was stronger than the army of the Potomac. According to a detailed study done by Col. John S. Clark of Nathaniel Banks’ corps in September 1862, the ANV entered Maryland with 97,175 men. All senior Federal leaders thought the ANV outnumbered Federal forces at the time. A subsequent reassessment in October 1862 put Confederate forces at just over 89K men. Just saying …