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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... Rodes' Division, Archer's Brigade). Union forces, in contrast, tended to follow a numbering system (e.g., Third Corps, First Division, Second Brigade), so when I refer to those units with the names of their commanders I have not ...
... ( Rodes ' Division , Ewell's Corps ) reads : “ June 4 broke camp near Gracie's church for God knows where . " Another Tarheel reported that “ various were the conjectures among the men as to our probable destination . ” While still ...
... Rodes ' divisions , stopping all of Ewell's Corps in its tracks . Robert E. Lee had remained at Fredericksburg even as the last of Ewell's men ( belonging to Major General Edward Johnson's division ) marched off . Early on Friday , June ...
... Rodes ( + Jenkins ) Shenandoah River Cedar- ville Potomac Point of Rocks Barnesville Poolesville June 10-13 , 1863 11 12 Reynolds Han- Birney Meade Sedg- Howard Slocum ( 1st ) cock Sickles Sykes wick ( 2nd ) ( 3rd ) ( 5th ) ( 6th ) 2 ...
... Rodes' men followed on a parallel route farther east. On June 11, after meeting with Lee, Ewell himself would ride out of Culpeper, eventually catching up with Johnson and Early about half a day's march from Chester Gap. Once his troops ...