D scott hartwig biography

The first volume of D. Scott Hartwig’s two-part chronicle of the September Maryland Campaign, To Antietam Creek, was published in October With Hartwig’s long-awaited second volume — “I Dread the Thought of the Place”: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign — now out, one might forgive the accomplished Civil War historian a respite of some sort.

The September 17, , clash between Robert E. Lee’s and George B. McClellan’s armies at Sharpsburg, Md., remains America’s bloodiest single day, and Hartwig provides here a remarkably intense, blow-by-blow study of a battle that produced more than 23, total casualties and forever changed the divided nation’s future.

He recently sat down with Civil War Times for an exclusive discussion of his landmark study.  

You of course established yourself as supervisory park historian at Gettysburg National Military Park?

What was your inspiration for such a full-fledged study of the Maryland