Gettysburg: A Testing of CourageAmerica's Civil War raged for more than four years, but it is the three days of fighting in the Pennsylvania countryside in July 1863 that continues to fascinate, appall, and inspire new generations with its unparalleled saga of sacrifice and courage. From Chancellorsville, where General Robert E. Lee launched his high-risk campaign into the North, to the Confederates' last daring and ultimately-doomed act, forever known as Pickett's Charge, the battle of Gettysburg gave the Union army a victory that turned back the boldest and perhaps greatest chance for a Southern nation. Now acclaimed historian Noah Andre Trudeau brings the most up-to-date research available to a brilliant, sweeping, and comprehensive history of the battle of Gettysburg that sheds fresh light on virtually every aspect of it. Deftly balancing his own narrative style with revealing firsthand accounts, Trudeau brings this engrossing human tale to life as never before. |
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... Corps, Rodes' Division, Archer's Brigade). Union forces, in contrast, tended to follow a numbering system (e.g., Third Corps, First Division, Second Brigade), so when I refer to those units with the names of their commanders I have not ...
... corps of more than 23,600 men kept Lee's attention riveted at Fredericksburg, Hooker had marched the rest of his infantry undetected upstream to cross behind the Rebel army. His flanking force numbered about 72,300 men at that point and ...
... Corps regiment , the 20th Maine , had seen action during the battle— deemed Hooker's performance at Chancellorsville a " fearful shock " to the army . Meanwhile , in the 7th Indiana , a First Corps regiment that had missed the combat ...
... Corps) minced no words: “The talk about demoralization in this army is all false. The army is no more demoralized to-day than the day it first started out, although God knows it has had, through the blundering of inefficient commanders ...
... Corps , " reported a Third Corps soldier . “ They runn like sheep . ” All of this contumely came as a rude surprise to the Eleventh Corps soldiers themselves , who had suffered about three - fourths of the Union losses on May 2 while ...