Comments on: Interview: D. Scott Hartwig, “To Antietam Creek” http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/interview-d-scott-hartwig-to-antietam-creek/ A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle Tue, 14 May 2013 19:21:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Harry Smeltzer http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/interview-d-scott-hartwig-to-antietam-creek/#comment-22591 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:55:39 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=10528#comment-22591 You’ll have to read Scott’s book…

]]> By: RS http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/interview-d-scott-hartwig-to-antietam-creek/#comment-22590 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:26:01 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=10528#comment-22590 Excellent interview and I will certainly put this on my reading list.

One comment, Douglas Southall Freeman’s original “Lee’s Lieutenants” has a similar description of the Maryland Campaign of 1862 (what he calls the green corn campaign) and the impact of desertion on the ability of the south to succeed in invading the north. In addition to the commissary’s inability to adequately feed its soldiers and the length and the march, DSF, attributes much of the desertion to the fact that many southern soldiers felt they enlisted to defend the south, and not to invade another country. I am curious about Scott’s thoughts on that issue.

]]> By: Harry Smeltzer http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/interview-d-scott-hartwig-to-antietam-creek/#comment-22537 Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:19:27 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=10528#comment-22537 I think you need this one, Brian.

]]> By: Brian http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/interview-d-scott-hartwig-to-antietam-creek/#comment-22531 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:32:41 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=10528#comment-22531 Huge kudos to Scott for his dedication and persistence – his book sounds like a treasure – and for sharing something of what writing it was like. Thanks Harry for hosting the interview and those fine questions. I was going to hint to my family about the book for Christmas, but now know I shouln’t wait that long to have it :)

]]> By: Chris Evans http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/interview-d-scott-hartwig-to-antietam-creek/#comment-22520 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:51:04 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=10528#comment-22520 Also, I never knew of the connection between Hartwig and E.B. Long.

Long’s epic day by day history of the war is still such a masterpiece in the field of Civil War study.

Chris

]]> By: Chris Evans http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/interview-d-scott-hartwig-to-antietam-creek/#comment-22519 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:46:20 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=10528#comment-22519 Great interview. I’ve been looking forward to these books for years.

Chris

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