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The Gleam of Bayonets: The Battle of Antietam and Robert E. Lee's Maryland Campaign
by James V. Murfin
from Louisiana State University Press
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Strongly Recommended! 
The author stated in the preface he spent nine years researching this battle and previous events. And it shows, he goes into a LOT of detail about the battle, its causes, its principal characters and the national confusion that preceeded (and followed) it.I strongly recommend this book to keen Civil War fans (as well as history fans). It covers very meticulously what is possibly the most decisive battle of the whole war. A battle mostly fought because the confederate side dropped battleplans. Historians... more info
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Good Read About Bloodiest Day in US Military History
The Gleam of Bayonets by James V. Murfin is a worthwhile read concerning the bloodiest day that the American military has ever experienced. It is not the best book I have read concerning Antietam. For that I would recommend Landscape Turned Red : The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears. Murfin's basic premise is that Antietam was the turning point in not only the Civil War, but in American history. The Union "victory" allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation and turn the war from one... more info
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Great overview of Antietam and the inept McClellan 
What started as an assignment for a newspaper's 100th anniversary edition of the battle of Antietam, The Gleam of Bayonetd is the result of six years of intensive research and consultation with regarded historians. Murfin, an editorialist for the Hagerstown, Maryland "Herald Mail" newspaper and a member of the Hagerstown Civil War Roundtagle, explains in the book's preface his opinionated style of writing. For Murfin, what started as a mere examination of the battle, eventually became an analysis of the... more info
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