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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... Army of Northern Virginia as it defeated a much larger enemy force at Chancel- lorsville , near Fredericksburg . The details of this action had reached the city largely through Lee's dispatches , adding in no small measure to the ...
... Army of the West . " Lee had not rejected Seddon's request outright ; he had simply enu- merated all the things that could go wrong with such a complicated troop transfer . Then the army's adjutant and inspector general had entered the ...
... army moving , Lee was confident he could “ baffle and break up " any enemy schemes . Davis listened , then decided : Lee could reinforce his army for a north- ward advance . The next day , Saturday , May 16 , Davis called in his full ...
... army , Lee breakfasted with a family friend who was " very glad to see that the great and good man was so cheerful . ” Some fifty - five miles north of Richmond , on the same day Lee met with Seddon and Davis , Union military engineers ...
... army was the “legitimate property of the Army of the Potomac.” Even Lincoln, always anxious to encourage aggressiveness in his generals, worried to a friend, after hearing Hooker's predictions, that “he is overconfident.” Hooker's plan ...