The Bloody Ground

The Bloody Ground is the fourth volume in Bernard Cornwells' enthusiastically received Civil War series, 'The Starbuck Chronicles.' It is set against the background of one of the war's greatest battles, known as Antietam in Union history, named after the blood-soaked creek that wound its way through the Maryland cornfields where the fighting occurred, and Sharpsburg to Confederates, after the nearest small town. The novel begins with a rain-soaked fight at Chantilly, Virginia, on September 1, as