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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... column and line. A column was a marching formation; with three or four men abreast, it packed a regiment into as compact a space as was practicable for rapid movement along a road or across open ground. Once engaged in combat, columns ...
... immediately who had won as he watched the “long column” of Pickett's Division marching “through the city northward,” even as Reagan and his colleagues struggled for consensus. “Gen. Lee,” Jones noted, “is now stronger than he was PROLOGUE ...
... artillery commander, would never forget “the hurried preparations, the parting with my wife & little daughter.” Alexander lingered as the column shuffled forward, “looking back as long as even the tops of the locust 20 GETTYSBURG.
... column might threaten Washington without the Army of the Potomac to block it. Hooker respectfully asked for Lincoln's opinion on the matter. The president's answer crackled back four and a half hours later. Given the Union army's recent ...
... column of Longstreet's troops that included the 17th Mississippi. The general was roughly dressed for travel and, surrounded by his mounted detail, looked for all the world like a man under arrest. The spectacle caused one Mississippian ...
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 |