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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... Lee's dispatches, adding in no small measure to the celebrity of the otherwise unassuming officer. Any public commemoration of this incredible victory had been instantly muted, however, by the news that Lee's charismatic second in ...
... Lee suggested that Beauregard's troops might be better deployed closer to Richmond. This in turn would free up units from Lee's army that were assigned to the capital's defenses, which could then be returned to him. Lee invited himself ...
... Lee was not by nature given to making specific promises or outlining his intentions in any detail. He would later ... Lee's May 15 conference with Davis and Seddon. The army commander was not present during the cabinet discussions; he ...
... Lee to move north. While a later generation of writers would tout Chancellorsville as “Lee's greatest victory,” there is evidence that its principal architect did not see it that way. He had, in a postbattle proclamation to his men ...
... Lee's army was the “legitimate property of the Army of the Potomac.” Even Lincoln, always anxious to encourage aggressiveness in his generals, worried to a friend, after hearing Hooker's predictions, that “he is overconfident.” Hooker's ...
Contents
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It begins to look as though we will have a battle soon | 127 |
Battle | 144 |
July 1 1863 | 152 |
Night Wednesday July 1 | 273 |
Night Thursday July 2 | 423 |
Endings and Beginnings | 543 |
Judgments | 550 |
Afterward | 557 |
Chapter Notes | 597 |
Bibliography | 643 |
Index | 679 |