Black Antietam: African Americans and the Civil War in Sharpsburg
Emilie Amt
The History Press/Arcadia Publishing
The story of the Battle of Antietam has never been told through African American perspectives. The community witnessed John Brown’s raid, wartime skirmishes, the Battle of South Mountain and the aftermath of the bloodiest day in American history. In Black Antietam, African American experiences during four years of Civil War come to life in vivid detail, often in their own words. Award-winning historian Emilie Amt recounts the personal stories of those, both enslaved and free, who lived on the battlefield and who worked in the armies that clashed there.