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WINNER FOR REPRINT; 2010; ARMY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD When Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland in early September 1862; Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan moved his reorganized and revitalized Army of the Potomac to meet him. The campaign included some of the bloodiest; most dramatic; and influential combat of the entire Civil War. Combined with Southern failures in the Western Theater; the fighting dashed the Confederacy’s best hope for independence; convinced President Abraham Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation; and left America with what is still its bloodiest day in history.One of the campaign’s participants was Ezra A. Carman; the colonel of the 13th New Jersey Infantry. Wounded earlier in the war; Carman would achieve brigade command and fight in more than twenty battles before being mustered out as a brevet brigadier general. After the horrific fighting of September 17; 1862; he recorded in his diary that he was preparing “a good map of the Antietam battle and a full account of the action.” Unbeknownst to the young officer; the project would become the most significant work of his life.Appointed as the “Historical Expert” to the Antietam Battlefield Board in 1894; Carman and the other members solicited accounts from hundreds of veterans; scoured through thousands of letters and maps; and assimilated the material into the hundreds of cast iron tablets that still mark the field today. Carman also wrote an 1;800-page manuscript on the campaign; from its start in northern Virginia through McClellan’s removal from command in November 1862. Although it remained unpublished for more than a century; many historians and students of the war consider it to be the best overall treatment of the campaign ever written.Dr. Thomas G. Clemens (editor); recognized internationally as one of the foremost historians of the Maryland Campaign; has spent more than two decades studying Antietam and editing and richly annotating Carman’s exhaustively written manuscript. The result is 'The Maryland Campaign of September 1862'; Carman’s magisterial account published for the first time in two volumes. Jammed with firsthand accounts; personal anecdotes; maps; photos; a biographical dictionary; and a database of veterans’ accounts of the fighting; this long-awaited study will be read and appreciated as battle history at its finest.About the Authors: Ezra Ayres Carman was born in Oak Tree; New Jersey; on February 27; 1834; and educated at Western Military Academy in Kentucky. He fought with New Jersey organizations throughout the Civil War; mustering out as a brevet brigadier general. He was appointed to the Antietam National Cemetery Board of Trustees and later to the Antietam Battlefield Board in 1894. Carman also served on the Chattanooga-Chickamauga Battlefield Commission. He died in 1909 on Christmas day and was buried just below the Custis-Lee mansion in Arlington Cemetery.Thomas G. Clemens earned his doctoral degree at George Mason University; where he studied under Maryland Campaign historian Dr. Joseph L. Harsh. Tom has published a wide variety of magazine articles and book reviews; has appeared in several documentary programs; and is a licensed tour guide at Antietam National Battlefield. An instructor at Hagerstown Community College; he also helped found and is the current president of Save Historic Antietam Foundation; Inc.; a preservation group dedicated to saving historic properties.