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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... Longstreet's Flank Attack : Three Scenarios 323 July 2 : Sickles and Longstreet Deploy 329 July 2 : Robertson's and Law's Scrambled Advance 338 July 2 : Benning and Anderson Strike Sickles 350 July 2 : Action on Little Round Top 361 ...
... Longstreet . Under the previous system , he and Jackson had each com- manded half of Lee's force , and Longstreet retained most of his old units in the newly shaped First Corps . Born in South Carolina and raised in Georgia , the forty ...
... Longstreet recollected it thus: “The enemy would be on our right flank while we were moving north. Ewell's corps was ... Longstreet's Corps were astir on June 3 with the arrival of orders putting the men in motion to Culpeper. Lee would ...
... Longstreet Raccoon Ford U.S. Ford Chancellors- ville Longstreet ( McLaws ) / Verdiersville Ewell ( Early , Rodes , Johnson ) Shady Grove Ch . Banks Ford Fredericks- burg Potomac Ck Falmouth A. P. Hill Spot- sylvania . 10:00 A Another ...
... Longstreet's Corps. He closed by renewing his argument that troops from Beauregard's coastal com- mand should either “be sent to re-enforce Johnston in the west, or be ordered to re-enforce this army.” Next, in the same breath, he sent ...