I agree with Mr. Farney. While A Landscape Turned Red is a good overview of the battle, his anti-McClellan bias is a problem. In Sears' Gates to Richmond, he even criticizes McClellan's implementation of his change of base to the James River because Mac followed the roads on his map whereas a reconnaissance would have discovered a nearby unmarked woods road. Yet he gives Lee a pass for his confusing pursuit of Mac through this same area, saying "the essential fault lay with the Confederacy's failure to have produced a single good map of the approaches to its own capital." (pp. 257 & 315). So both had bad maps, but Lee had soldiers in his army who lived in this area, yet Lee gets a pass but he hammers McClellan. That is unfair. D. Scott Hartwig wrote a more balanced account of the campaign up to Antietam called To Antietam Creek and is currently writing a book on Antietam.