[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from reply #29.

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 17, 1862 (“Everything seems to indicate the ‘breaking up’ of the armies of our enemies, as if our prayers had been answered, and the hosts of Lincoln were really to be ‘brought to confusion.’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_68.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: September 17, 1862 (“Listened almost all day to the heavy cannonading of the great battle on the banks of the Antietam, anxiously guessing whether it is with us [or] our foes.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_31.html

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from September 17 (reply #48).

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword