East Cobb Author to Speak About Antietam

Cobb County historian, documentary film maker and author Richard Croker is set to examine "the bloodiest single day in all of American history" during the Booth Western Art Museum's Art for Lunch in Cartersville.

Set for Aug. 7 at 12:15 p.m. in the Booth Ballroom, East Cobb resident Croker will talk about his book on the Battle of Antietam, an American Civil War fight that many experts believe was significantly more important than Gettysburg, according to the Booth's website. Lunch will be available for purchase.

“To Make Men Free and No Greater Courage are what (Croker) calls 'UN-fiction,'" according to his bio. "With apologies to Rhett and Scarlett, there are no fictional characters or events." 

Two of Croker’s great-grandfathers fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War—Samuel Freer Croker was wounded twice, once at Second Manassas (Brawner’s Farm) and later at Petersburg.

"(Croker's) books are literary reenactments of the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg, depicting actual Americans doing nothing more or less than they really did," according to the bio.