Budiansky focuses on the Battle of Antietam, which took place during the American Civil War in 1862 and left some 3,600 soldiers killed and 16,000 wounded. A military draw, it became a political ...

Ambrose Burnside's roller-coaster military career included early Civil War successes, a bloody draw at Antietam ... sites out of enemy range. At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Burnside threw ...