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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... Robert L. Brake in anticipation of the history he never wrote. Other archives also played their part; I am grateful, in particular, for the fine ser- vices rendered by John M. Coski of the Museum of the Confederacy and Edward Varno of ...
... Robert E. Lee. Lee had come to symbolize both the hopes and the grim resignation of Rich- mond's citizenry . In the first week of May he PROLOGUE: May 15-18, 1863 PART ONE: Confluence “I wish I could get at those people.
... Robert K. Beecham , an infantryman in the 2nd Wisconsin ( First Corps ) , who declared , “ The Chancellorsville campaign pretty thoroughly demonstrated the fact that as a general in the field at the head of an army , Gen. Joseph Hooker ...
... Robert E. Lee was gambling on what he assumed his opponent would or would not do . The entire Army of the Potomac was encamped along the northern bank of the Rappa- hannock , opposite Fredericksburg . Facing it along the heights west ...
... Robert E. Lee's cavalry com- mander indulged himself in the pomp and pageantry of war by having his mounted command pass in review. Major General Jeb Stuart understood how the romantic currents of the age could help to mute some of the ...