Gettysburg Heroes: Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed GroundThe Civil War generation saw its world in ways startlingly different from our own. In these essays, Glenn W. LaFantasie examines the lives and experiences of several key personalities who gained fame during the war and after. The battle of Gettysburg is the thread that ties these Civil War lives together. Gettysburg was a personal turning point, though each person was affected differently. Largely biographical in its approach, the book captures the human drama of the war and shows how this group of individuals—including Abraham Lincoln, James Longstreet, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, William C. Oates, and others—endured or succumbed to the war and, willingly or unwillingly, influenced its outcome. At the same time, it shows how the war shaped the lives of these individuals, putting them through ordeals they never dreamed they would face or survive. |
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... brother Bob hid behind just such a monument. I'll call him in.” Brother Bob came into the kitchen and swore that the monument the one—legged man had described was the very one he had also taken cover behind. But, he insisted, he was the ...
... brothers, in memorial stones, roads, indicated lines of battle, etc. The more we honor the bravery of our adversary, the greater our glory in having conquered them.”19 Yet the memories of these soldiers, Union and Confederate, stood ...
... brother than an alien béte noire. William Owen, who fought with the 20th Maine at Gettysburg, lamented that the sectional controversy had broken into warfare with “brother against brother” and “families divided against each other and ...
... his suitability for high rank in the Confederate army by sending letters of support to President Jefferson Davis. Longstreet's brother William also wrote to Davis and offered his younger brother's Lee's Old War Horse 23.
... brother's services “in any capacity that is within the scope of his profession.”13 On March 16, 1861, Confederate officials in Montgomery appointed Longstreet to the rank of lieutenant colonel of infantry. Not knowing of the commission ...
Contents
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Tragic Hero of the Union | 35 |
3 Becoming Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain | 49 |
4 Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the American Dream | 68 |
5 Finding William C Oates | 90 |
6 An Alabamians Civil War | 102 |
7 Hell in Haymarket | 119 |
10 Lincoln and the Gettysburg Awakening | 160 |
11 Memories of Little Round Top | 172 |
12 Ike and Monty Take Gettysburg | 192 |
13 The Many Meanings of Gettysburg | 207 |
14 Feeling the Past at Gettysburg | 217 |
Notes | 229 |
Index | 271 |
back cover | 281 |
8 William C Oates and the Death of General Farnsworth | 132 |
9 Mr Lincolns Victory at Gettysburg | 148 |