When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of Antietam and its Impact on the Civilians Who Called it Home

Steven Cowie reveals what happened when the homefront became battlefront in When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of Antietam and its Impact on Civilians Who Called it Home. Reviewer Annabelle Blevins Pifer writes that “from beginning thrusts you into lives Sharpsburg residents” demonstrates town’s civilians had no choice but become part war. two armies interrupted their daily lives, caused damage property was rarely remunerated, initiated ecological changes, spread disease through community. Shaprsburg, writes, is “a phenomenal resource for anyone who researching social impacts American Civil War.”