The Gleam of Bayonets by James Vernon Murfin

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The More Than One Hundred Best Books On The Civil War List (1981)

Table of Contents, 21

New Foreword, by D. Scott Hartwig, 5

Foreword to 1965 Edition, 9

Preface, 13

Introduction, by James I. Robertson, Jr., 25

Dramatis Personae, 29

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)

George Britton McClellan (1826-1885)

Henry Wager Halleck (1815-1872)

Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881)

Joseph Hooker (1814-1879)

Edwin Vose Sumner (1797-1863)

Joseph King Mansfield (1803-1862)

John Sedgwick (1813-1864)

William Henry French (1815-1881)

Israel Bush Richardson (1815-1862)

William Buel Franklin (1823-1903)

Jacob Dobson Cox (1828-1900)

Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870)

Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson (1824-1863)

James Longstreet (1821-1904)

James Ewell Brown Stuart (1833-1864)

Daniel Harvey Hill (1821-1889)

Ambrose Powell Hill (1825- 1865)

John G. Walker (1822-1893)

Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897)

John Bell Hood (1831-1879)

Henry Kyd Douglas (1840-1903)

1. McClellan Lincoln's Dilemma, 35

2. "The Most Propitious Time," 63

3. "The Flower of Lee's Army," 88

4. "All the Plans of the Rebels," 113

5. Harpers Ferry, 135

6. South Mountain, 159

7. "Harper's Ferry Is to Be Surrendered," 186

8. The Gleam of Bayonets, 209

9. Bloody Lane, 245

10. Burnside Bridge, 267

11. "Fatal Thursday," 289

12. "McClellan's Bodyguard," 308

13. Epilogue, 325

Appendix A: Lee's "Lost Dispatch," 328

Appendix B: A Confederate Proclamation to Pennsylvania, 339

Appendix C: Organization of the Union and Confederate Armies at the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg), September 17, 1862, 343

Appendix D: Maryland Campaign Casualty Reports, 374

Appendix E: Important documents Pertaining to the Maryland Campaign of 1862, 378

Notes, 403

Bibliography, 429

Index, 437