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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 8
... Third Corps, First Division, Second Brigade), so when I refer to those units with the names of their commanders I have not capitalized the result (e.g., Wadsworth's division, Vincent's brigade). A few Federal units achieved an identity ...
... Third Corps by the name of John Haley weighed the moment with the fatalistic outlook of a veteran: he was certain, he wrote, that the army was “again buoyant and ready to be led to new fields of conquest—or defeat.” A member of the 1st ...
... third corps . Following his orders , that lone division marched off toward Culpeper on June 3. On the night of June 4 , Lee also began to move almost all of Ewell's Corps to that same point , leaving only A. P. Hill's men — perhaps ...
... Third Corps alone faced Hooker's entire army , with instructions : Hill was to do everything possible “ to deceive the enemy , and keep him in ignorance of any change in the disposition of the army . ” Should Lee's bluff fail , and Hill ...
... third time he had changed into a Confederate uniform in an attempt to pass himself off as a Rebel deserter . At his court - martial , Woods tried to explain his actions : " I cannot stand it to fight , " he said . The court , finding ...