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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... began working on it, the last telephone pole was removed from the stretch of the Emmitsburg Road that crosses the ground of major fighting on July 2 and 3. As I was reaching the end of the project, I was able to enjoy the view from Oak ...
... began to move almost all of Ewell's Corps to that same point, leaving only A. P. Hill's men—perhaps 20,000 in all—to confront Hooker's 80,000. If Lee's plan was to work, the Yankee observers had to be fooled. Most bothersome in this ...
... began to collapse at about 3:30 P.M. as the alert Buford, sensing that his enemy was weakening, increased the pressure and began to make gains. But even as his men approached victory on the northern slope of Fleetwood Hill, Buford ...
... began to stream out of headquarters with messages for the various corps commanders, instructing them to be ready to move. It would take until nightfall for Hooker to remove Sedgwick's men from the southern bank, but that was just the ...
... began to close the distance, leaving part of its force to watch over the stores still stacked at Aquia Landing. The Fifth, Sixth, and Twelfth corps joined the First, Third, and Eleventh, while the cavalry left Warrenton for the same ...
Contents
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It begins to look as though we will have a battle soon | 127 |
Battle | 144 |
July 1 1863 | 152 |
Night Wednesday July 1 | 273 |
Night Thursday July 2 | 423 |
Endings and Beginnings | 543 |
Judgments | 550 |
Afterward | 557 |
Chapter Notes | 597 |
Bibliography | 643 |
Index | 679 |