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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... Hooker's army across the Potomac ” 67 8 . CC ... I. 10. " I am going straight at them " 7. " We were all scared " 9. “ It was my firm determination . . . to give battle " 11. “ It begins to look as though we will have a battle soon " 77 ...
... Hooker Louisville Nashville Memphis • Little Rock Lee Richmond Chattanooga • Atlanta Columbia Charleston Vicksburg Montgomery Jackson May 19/21 assaults Port Mobile Hudson May 27 assault Baton Rouge New Orleans Gulf of Mexico The ...
... Hooker provided an object lesson . The forty - eight - year - old West Pointer had risen steadily through the ranks ... Hooker had found himself commanding the Army of the Potomac . Sure of himself to the point of arrogance, Hooker had ...
... Hooker's predictions, that “he is overconfident.” Hooker's plan had been brilliant. While one Union corps of more than 23,600 men kept Lee's attention riveted at Fredericksburg, Hooker had marched the rest of his infantry undetected ...
... Hooker's Retreat . ” Most unseemly to some was Hooker's selective memory regarding the council of war he had called on the evening of May 4 ( the fourth day of battle ) , during which several of his corps commanders , especially the ...