Six Days in September A Novel of the 1862 Maryland Campaign Alexander B Rossino 9780692413531 Books
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This gave me a blow by blow of the action of the battle of South Mountain and Antietam. I live in the area where these battles took place.Product details
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Six Days in September A Novel of the 1862 Maryland Campaign Alexander B Rossino 9780692413531 Books Reviews
If you enjoy reading a historical novel this book would be a great selection. Reading about the Civil War or the War for Southern Independence, depending upon your understanding of this tragic event, can sometime be a task. Most important, when writing a novel is the ability of the author to have a true understanding of the events. In this novel the author shows he has a passion for research into history that took place in Maryland in 1862. He gets the details of Robert E. Lee's campaign correct. It is obvious that he spent a great deal of time bringing the characters to life while remaining true to history. Like Jim Lehrer's "No Certain Rest", a novel is believable only if the facts are correct. Included in this novel are stories of the soldiers that fought during Lee's struggle against the Union army in Maryland. He also examines the experiences of the residents of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The end result is that you get the military perspective from the soldier's point of view but also witness the hardships faced by the civilians that were descended upon by two great armies. This includes the threatened destruction of the little town of Sharpsburg. This book is an honest
look at a small community that was forever changed by some of the bloodiest fighting this country has ever witnessed. Consider this a MUST read.
"Six Days In SeptemberA novel of Lee's Army in Maryland, 1862," by Alexander B. Rossino (Alexander B. Rossino and Savas-Beatie, 310 pages, 2015, 2017). This outstanding novel is a great read from the beginning chapter to the last of the Maryland Campaign of the late-summer of 1862. This is a great plot about soldiers in the Army of Northern Virginia from the privates to the leaders of the Army of Northern Virginia and how they were marching towards September 16-17, 1862 at the battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam). The author gives the reader a "silent observer" view of soldiers from Virginia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas and other soldiers represented in the ANV. Many characters are in the novel, and all are all too human. This is not a grand tale of combat and adventure,this novel is the common emotions of soldiers who were heroic and flawed. It is great to see Rossino give General Lee his flawed emotions and temper, the eccentricities of Stonewall Jackson, and the hesitant stubbornness of James Longstreet. The attitude and emotions of the Generals and Colonels in the novel have a direct effect on the enlisted men in the regiments.
The main characters in the novel though are the leaders and their relationships with their brother generals, especially between James Longstreet and Robert E. Lee. The way the author gives each of these men in the novel an admiration between the generals, but also an underlying tension that is of some factor at Sharpsburg, but will be paramount less than a year later at Gettysburg.
The facts of the Maryland Campaign are not skipped in the book, the loss of Lee's orders that could have give George B. McClellan the deciding advantage is in the story, the battles of South Mountain and Harper's Ferry are discussed among the characters and the tragic circumstances at Sharpsburg.
Another great plus is the stories of the enlisted men and their friendships with each other. These men fought together in many battles leading up to Antietam and the author gives a great background story of these enlisted men as well. The tragic and horrific bloody battle is not glossed over but the emotions and horror are prevalent.
This is a great read and I felt like I was there as a silent observer and waited to have the soldiers in the novel ask my opinion at any time. That is how good this novel is. It is a good way to read about the Civil War without all the dry military facts. It is a refreshing read and highly recommended to those who enjoy a good yarn and a good read of the Maryland Campaign of 1862. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
“Six Days in September A novel of Lee’s Army in Maryland, 1862,” by Alexander B. Rossino, a Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table Book Review, by David Lady
The author states up front that this is a novel about Lee’s Army. At center stage is General R. E. Lee, some of his senior commanders, and staff officers such as Henry Kyd Douglas and Franklin Turner who carry messages and bring reports. The enlisted point of view is shown through a number of chapters involving three mess-buddies in the Sixth Alabama Infantry as they fight, forage, gamble, and try to survive. Two families of Sharpsburg Confederate sympathizers are also introduced, to show us the terror of civilians caught up in horrible circumstances, when confusion and destruction overwhelms their senses and ruins their lives.
The novel begins on the day prior to the Battle of South Mountain (12 Sep, 1862). General Lee is made aware that the normally slowly moving Army of the Potomac is now advancing rapidly toward the Army of Northern Virginia. The army is now in grave danger, as units had been scattered across Western Maryland and Northwestern Virginia to forage heavily on farms and villages while a heavy force under General Jackson was sent to seize the Federal depot at Harpers Ferry. None of the characters know why the Federal Army is suddenly advancing into battle. They only know that General Lee’s planning assumptions have been proven wrong, and that the scattered Army of Northern Virginia risks defeat and destruction. Rumor runs rife and misinforms them all, from the generals to the soldiers guarding the passes through South Mountain. Lee, Longstreet and the other leaders know a little more than their soldiers, but they must guess at the moves and intentions of the enemy. The Federals are only glimpsed dimly, as dark masses beyond a haze of black-powder smoke. They are heard only as shouts and screams through the noise of terrific gunfire and drum rolls.
The story takes us through to 18 September and the withdrawal of Lee’s soldiers from the Antietam battlefield, a six day period marked by hard marching and desperate, bloody fighting as the Confederates regrouped and finally stalemated Federal attempts to destroy them.
Alexander Rossino is a resident of Boonsboro, MD who worked at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial from 1994 to 2003. He is the author of nearly a dozen scholarly articles and book reviews. He is the author of Hitler Strikes Poland Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity, an acclaimed history of the racial and political policies implemented by the Third Reich during its 1939 invasion of the Polish Republic. His interest in the American Civil War dates from his childhood; he has long wanted to write on the Antietam Campaign, but did not want to write a standard narrative history of the event.
I enjoyed this novel for two reasons Firstly, the author does not allow the reader to know what is going on “the other side of the hill.” Rossino creates a series of very tense situations; tension felt by the each of the characters as they make decisions and attempt to survive during the critical days between the Battles of South Mountain and Antietam. He reveals only what the participants see and know at each moment, and displays how little they understand of the events going on around them. Soldiers and leaders on the firing line see a few hundred years in any direction, and hear nothing over the sound of gunfire, explosions, and the screams of comrades and foes. Civilians see only destruction and fear further hardship.
Secondly, the author does not pause in narrating the action to make reflective and high-minded thinkers out of fighting men during a time of crisis. These Southerners are focused on the threat against them and the tasks at hand. They do their jobs, they march, fight, and they attempt to feed themselves and their units.
I prefer this book to such classic Civil War novels such as Killer Angels. General Lee, his lieutenants and soldiers are shown in their humanness; they disagree, they argue; they are often scared and they suffer from weariness, injuries and illness. Yet they try to take care of their comrades and they generally do their duty. Lee is distinguished from them all as he seeks victory by displaying his terrifying audacity; audacity that frustrates his own officers almost as much as the enemy.
The author has written a fine first novel that tells a good, gripping story. Give it a read!
“Six Days in September A novel of Lee’s Army in Maryland, 1862,” by Alexander B. Rossino, a Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table Book Review, by David Lady
The author states up front that this is a novel about Lee’s Army. At center stage is General R. E. Lee, some of his senior commanders, and staff officers such as Henry Kyd Douglas and Franklin Turner who carry messages and bring reports. The enlisted point of view is shown through a number of chapters involving three mess-buddies in the Sixth Alabama Infantry as they fight, forage, gamble, and try to survive. Two families of Sharpsburg Confederate sympathizers are also introduced, to show us the terror of civilians caught up in horrible circumstances, when confusion and destruction overwhelms their senses and ruins their lives.
The novel begins on the day prior to the Battle of South Mountain (12 Sep, 1862). General Lee is made aware that the normally slowly moving Army of the Potomac is now advancing rapidly toward the Army of Northern Virginia. The army is now in grave danger, as units had been scattered across Western Maryland and Northwestern Virginia to forage heavily on farms and villages while a heavy force under General Jackson was sent to seize the Federal depot at Harpers Ferry. None of the characters know why the Federal Army is suddenly advancing into battle. They only know that General Lee’s planning assumptions have been proven wrong, and that the scattered Army of Northern Virginia risks defeat and destruction. Rumor runs rife and misinforms them all, from the generals to the soldiers guarding the passes through South Mountain. Lee, Longstreet and the other leaders know a little more than their soldiers, but they must guess at the moves and intentions of the enemy. The Federals are only glimpsed dimly, as dark masses beyond a haze of black-powder smoke. They are heard only as shouts and screams through the noise of terrific gunfire and drum rolls.
The story takes us through to 18 September and the withdrawal of Lee’s soldiers from the Antietam battlefield, a six day period marked by hard marching and desperate, bloody fighting as the Confederates regrouped and finally stalemated Federal attempts to destroy them.
Alexander Rossino is a resident of Boonsboro, MD who worked at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial from 1994 to 2003. He is the author of nearly a dozen scholarly articles and book reviews. He is the author of Hitler Strikes Poland Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity, an acclaimed history of the racial and political policies implemented by the Third Reich during its 1939 invasion of the Polish Republic. His interest in the American Civil War dates from his childhood; he has long wanted to write on the Antietam Campaign, but did not want to write a standard narrative history of the event.
I enjoyed this novel for two reasons Firstly, the author does not allow the reader to know what is going on “the other side of the hill.” Rossino creates a series of very tense situations; tension felt by the each of the characters as they make decisions and attempt to survive during the critical days between the Battles of South Mountain and Antietam. He reveals only what the participants see and know at each moment, and displays how little they understand of the events going on around them. Soldiers and leaders on the firing line see a few hundred years in any direction, and hear nothing over the sound of gunfire, explosions, and the screams of comrades and foes. Civilians see only destruction and fear further hardship.
Secondly, the author does not pause in narrating the action to make reflective and high-minded thinkers out of fighting men during a time of crisis. These Southerners are focused on the threat against them and the tasks at hand. They do their jobs, they march, fight, and they attempt to feed themselves and their units.
I prefer this book to such classic Civil War novels such as Killer Angels. General Lee, his lieutenants and soldiers are shown in their humanness; they disagree, they argue; they are often scared and they suffer from weariness, injuries and illness. Yet they try to take care of their comrades and they generally do their duty. Lee is distinguished from them all as he seeks victory by displaying his terrifying audacity; audacity that frustrates his own officers almost as much as the enemy.
The author has written a fine first novel that tells a good, gripping story. Give it a read!
“Six Days in September A novel of Lee’s Army in Maryland, 1862,” by Alexander B. Rossino, a Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table Book Review, by David Lady
The author states up front that this is a novel about Lee’s Army. At center stage is General R. E. Lee, some of his senior commanders, and staff officers such as Henry Kyd Douglas and Franklin Turner who carry messages and bring reports. The enlisted point of view is shown through a number of chapters involving three mess-buddies in the Sixth Alabama Infantry as they fight, forage, gamble, and try to survive. Two families of Sharpsburg Confederate sympathizers are also introduced, to show us the terror of civilians caught up in horrible circumstances, when confusion and destruction overwhelms their senses and ruins their lives.
The novel begins on the day prior to the Battle of South Mountain (12 Sep, 1862). General Lee is made aware that the normally slowly moving Army of the Potomac is now advancing rapidly toward the Army of Northern Virginia. The army is now in grave danger, as units had been scattered across Western Maryland and Northwestern Virginia to forage heavily on farms and villages while a heavy force under General Jackson was sent to seize the Federal depot at Harpers Ferry. None of the characters know why the Federal Army is suddenly advancing into battle. They only know that General Lee’s planning assumptions have been proven wrong, and that the scattered Army of Northern Virginia risks defeat and destruction. Rumor runs rife and misinforms them all, from the generals to the soldiers guarding the passes through South Mountain. Lee, Longstreet and the other leaders know a little more than their soldiers, but they must guess at the moves and intentions of the enemy. The Federals are only glimpsed dimly, as dark masses beyond a haze of black-powder smoke. They are heard only as shouts and screams through the noise of terrific gunfire and drum rolls.
The story takes us through to 18 September and the withdrawal of Lee’s soldiers from the Antietam battlefield, a six day period marked by hard marching and desperate, bloody fighting as the Confederates regrouped and finally stalemated Federal attempts to destroy them.
Alexander Rossino is a resident of Boonsboro, MD who worked at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial from 1994 to 2003. He is the author of nearly a dozen scholarly articles and book reviews. He is the author of Hitler Strikes Poland Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity, an acclaimed history of the racial and political policies implemented by the Third Reich during its 1939 invasion of the Polish Republic. His interest in the American Civil War dates from his childhood; he has long wanted to write on the Antietam Campaign, but did not want to write a standard narrative history of the event.
I enjoyed this novel for two reasons Firstly, the author does not allow the reader to know what is going on “the other side of the hill.” Rossino creates a series of very tense situations; tension felt by the each of the characters as they make decisions and attempt to survive during the critical days between the Battles of South Mountain and Antietam. He reveals only what the participants see and know at each moment, and displays how little they understand of the events going on around them. Soldiers and leaders on the firing line see a few hundred years in any direction, and hear nothing over the sound of gunfire, explosions, and the screams of comrades and foes. Civilians see only destruction and fear further hardship.
Secondly, the author does not pause in narrating the action to make reflective and high-minded thinkers out of fighting men during a time of crisis. These Southerners are focused on the threat against them and the tasks at hand. They do their jobs, they march, fight, and they attempt to feed themselves and their units.
I prefer this book to such classic Civil War novels such as Killer Angels. General Lee, his lieutenants and soldiers are shown in their humanness; they disagree, they argue; they are often scared and they suffer from weariness, injuries and illness. Yet they try to take care of their comrades and they generally do their duty. Lee is distinguished from them all as he seeks victory by displaying his terrifying audacity; audacity that frustrates his own officers almost as much as the enemy.
The author has written a fine first novel that tells a good, gripping story. Give it a read!
“Six Days in September A novel of Lee’s Army in Maryland, 1862,” by Alexander B. Rossino, a Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table Book Review, by David Lady
The author states up front that this is a novel about Lee’s Army. At center stage is General R. E. Lee, some of his senior commanders, and staff officers such as Henry Kyd Douglas and Franklin Turner who carry messages and bring reports. The enlisted point of view is shown through a number of chapters involving three mess-buddies in the Sixth Alabama Infantry as they fight, forage, gamble, and try to survive. Two families of Sharpsburg Confederate sympathizers are also introduced, to show us the terror of civilians caught up in horrible circumstances, when confusion and destruction overwhelms their senses and ruins their lives.
The novel begins on the day prior to the Battle of South Mountain (12 Sep, 1862). General Lee is made aware that the normally slowly moving Army of the Potomac is now advancing rapidly toward the Army of Northern Virginia. The army is now in grave danger, as units had been scattered across Western Maryland and Northwestern Virginia to forage heavily on farms and villages while a heavy force under General Jackson was sent to seize the Federal depot at Harpers Ferry. None of the characters know why the Federal Army is suddenly advancing into battle. They only know that General Lee’s planning assumptions have been proven wrong, and that the scattered Army of Northern Virginia risks defeat and destruction. Rumor runs rife and misinforms them all, from the generals to the soldiers guarding the passes through South Mountain. Lee, Longstreet and the other leaders know a little more than their soldiers, but they must guess at the moves and intentions of the enemy. The Federals are only glimpsed dimly, as dark masses beyond a haze of black-powder smoke. They are heard only as shouts and screams through the noise of terrific gunfire and drum rolls.
The story takes us through to 18 September and the withdrawal of Lee’s soldiers from the Antietam battlefield, a six day period marked by hard marching and desperate, bloody fighting as the Confederates regrouped and finally stalemated Federal attempts to destroy them.
Alexander Rossino is a resident of Boonsboro, MD who worked at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial from 1994 to 2003. He is the author of nearly a dozen scholarly articles and book reviews. He is the author of Hitler Strikes Poland Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity, an acclaimed history of the racial and political policies implemented by the Third Reich during its 1939 invasion of the Polish Republic. His interest in the American Civil War dates from his childhood; he has long wanted to write on the Antietam Campaign, but did not want to write a standard narrative history of the event.
I enjoyed this novel for two reasons Firstly, the author does not allow the reader to know what is going on “the other side of the hill.” Rossino creates a series of very tense situations; tension felt by the each of the characters as they make decisions and attempt to survive during the critical days between the Battles of South Mountain and Antietam. He reveals only what the participants see and know at each moment, and displays how little they understand of the events going on around them. Soldiers and leaders on the firing line see a few hundred years in any direction, and hear nothing over the sound of gunfire, explosions, and the screams of comrades and foes. Civilians see only destruction and fear further hardship.
Secondly, the author does not pause in narrating the action to make reflective and high-minded thinkers out of fighting men during a time of crisis. These Southerners are focused on the threat against them and the tasks at hand. They do their jobs, they march, fight, and they attempt to feed themselves and their units.
I prefer this book to such classic Civil War novels such as Killer Angels. General Lee, his lieutenants and soldiers are shown in their humanness; they disagree, they argue; they are often scared and they suffer from weariness, injuries and illness. Yet they try to take care of their comrades and they generally do their duty. Lee is distinguished from them all as he seeks victory by displaying his terrifying audacity; audacity that frustrates his own officers almost as much as the enemy.
The author has written a fine first novel that tells a good, gripping story. Give it a read!
“Six Days in September A novel of Lee’s Army in Maryland, 1862,” by Alexander B. Rossino, a Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table Book Review, by David Lady
The author states up front that this is a novel about Lee’s Army. At center stage is General R. E. Lee, some of his senior commanders, and staff officers such as Henry Kyd Douglas and Franklin Turner who carry messages and bring reports. The enlisted point of view is shown through a number of chapters involving three mess-buddies in the Sixth Alabama Infantry as they fight, forage, gamble, and try to survive. Two families of Sharpsburg Confederate sympathizers are also introduced, to show us the terror of civilians caught up in horrible circumstances, when confusion and destruction overwhelms their senses and ruins their lives.
The novel begins on the day prior to the Battle of South Mountain (12 Sep, 1862). General Lee is made aware that the normally slowly moving Army of the Potomac is now advancing rapidly toward the Army of Northern Virginia. The army is now in grave danger, as units had been scattered across Western Maryland and Northwestern Virginia to forage heavily on farms and villages while a heavy force under General Jackson was sent to seize the Federal depot at Harpers Ferry. None of the characters know why the Federal Army is suddenly advancing into battle. They only know that General Lee’s planning assumptions have been proven wrong, and that the scattered Army of Northern Virginia risks defeat and destruction. Rumor runs rife and misinforms them all, from the generals to the soldiers guarding the passes through South Mountain. Lee, Longstreet and the other leaders know a little more than their soldiers, but they must guess at the moves and intentions of the enemy. The Federals are only glimpsed dimly, as dark masses beyond a haze of black-powder smoke. They are heard only as shouts and screams through the noise of terrific gunfire and drum rolls.
The story takes us through to 18 September and the withdrawal of Lee’s soldiers from the Antietam battlefield, a six day period marked by hard marching and desperate, bloody fighting as the Confederates regrouped and finally stalemated Federal attempts to destroy them.
Alexander Rossino is a resident of Boonsboro, MD who worked at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial from 1994 to 2003. He is the author of nearly a dozen scholarly articles and book reviews. He is the author of Hitler Strikes Poland Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity, an acclaimed history of the racial and political policies implemented by the Third Reich during its 1939 invasion of the Polish Republic. His interest in the American Civil War dates from his childhood; he has long wanted to write on the Antietam Campaign, but did not want to write a standard narrative history of the event.
I enjoyed this novel for two reasons Firstly, the author does not allow the reader to know what is going on “the other side of the hill.” Rossino creates a series of very tense situations; tension felt by the each of the characters as they make decisions and attempt to survive during the critical days between the Battles of South Mountain and Antietam. He reveals only what the participants see and know at each moment, and displays how little they understand of the events going on around them. Soldiers and leaders on the firing line see a few hundred years in any direction, and hear nothing over the sound of gunfire, explosions, and the screams of comrades and foes. Civilians see only destruction and fear further hardship.
Secondly, the author does not pause in narrating the action to make reflective and high-minded thinkers out of fighting men during a time of crisis. These Southerners are focused on the threat against them and the tasks at hand. They do their jobs, they march, fight, and they attempt to feed themselves and their units.
I prefer this book to such classic Civil War novels such as Killer Angels. General Lee, his lieutenants and soldiers are shown in their humanness; they disagree, they argue; they are often scared and they suffer from weariness, injuries and illness. Yet they try to take care of their comrades and they generally do their duty. Lee is distinguished from them all as he seeks victory by displaying his terrifying audacity; audacity that frustrates his own officers almost as much as the enemy.
The author has written a fine first novel that tells a good, gripping story. Give it a read!
This gave me a blow by blow of the action of the battle of South Mountain and Antietam. I live in the area where these battles took place.
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