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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... Union military engineers watched in grim silence as ambulances bearing the last gatherings from the Chancellorsville battlefield creaked painfully across the pontoon bridge laid at Banks ' Ford . An assistant surgeon on the scene was ...
... Union corps of more than 23,600 men kept Lee's attention riveted at Fredericksburg, Hooker had marched the rest of his infantry undetected upstream to cross behind the Rebel army. His flanking force numbered about 72,300 men at that ...
... Union army's recent lack of success in attacking Fredericks- burg's heights , Lincoln was not keen on Hooker's attempting that objec- tive a second time . Hoping to make his point with one of his colorful analogies , Lincoln cautioned ...
... Union soldiers . No fires were allowed , so the men ate their rations cold and tried to sleep on the hard ground . Whispered orders brought the riders to horse at 2:00 a.m. , June 9. By 4:00 A.M. , the lead regiments were at the fords ...
... Union infantry corps had been captured in the fighting, and that there were unconfirmed indications of two more corps nearby. Once again, the implication was that his movements had been undertaken more to counter these Federal ...