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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... north as to threaten Washington before they could check him , & this once done he knew there was no need of further fears about their moving on Richmond . ” With his army moving , Lee was confident he could “ baffle and break up " any ...
... North he would march , and where he would meet the enemy , would be determined as events unfolded . The important preliminary step had been taken : he had won Richmond's grudging per- mission to make the effort . Still , Lee recognized ...
... North Carolina . " I see no prospect for peace . " It was a view shared by one of Lee's most promising young officers , Colonel Henry King Burgwyn Jr. , who commanded the 26th North Carolina . " God alone knows how tired I am of this ...
... north of Fredericksburg. “There is a considerable movement of the enemy,” Sharpe advised his agent on June 4. “Their camps are disappearing at some points. We shall rely on you to tell us whether they go your way or towards the ...
... north of the capital at Hanover Junction, could fill out 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 ...