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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... second-by-second accounts of its individual days (or even portions of individual days). The sum total is that a powerful refinement of Gettysburg's story has emerged. Many cherished tales were found to be fables, while other, long ...
... second in command , Major General Thomas J. “ Stonewall ” Jackson , had been seri- ously wounded in the fighting . Even so , his recovery had seemed assured until pneumonia - like complications set in ; on May 8 , Jackson died . All of ...
... ( Second Corps ) . “ As far as spirits are concerned , the army was never more jubilant ; it thinks with Joe Hooker that ' it can take care of itself , move when it wishes to ; fight when it sees fit ; retreat when it deems it best ...
... Second Corps, expressed a not-untypical opinion when he described to his wife how “the whole 11th Army Corps, gave way almost without firing a shot, the Panic stricken runing about in hundreds and thousands.” Similar contempt was voiced ...
... Second Corps was basically Jackson's old command . To lead it , Lee tapped Virginian Richard Stoddert Ewell , a forty - six - year - old professional officer who had served with distinc- tion under Jackson , and had in August 1862 ...