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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... enemy's potential western reinforcements toward him . It almost came as a relief when the Federals launched their ... enemy . War Department clerk Jones monitored this exchange and recorded its conclusion , when President Jefferson Davis ...
... enemy's country breaks up all of his preconceived plans , relieves our country of his presence , and we subsist ... enemy schemes . Davis listened , then decided : Lee could reinforce his army for a north- ward advance . The next day ...
... enemy's breadbasket, Lee could help himself to a rich larder of livestock and grains, as well as a large, ambiguous ... enemy interference. But there was another, even more important reason for Lee to move north. While a later generation ...
... hungry look in Lee's eyes as he gazed at the enemy's campfires and then said qui- etly , " I wish I could get at those people over there . " TWO CC ... we were taking a lot of chances " I WISH I COULD GET AT THOSE PEOPLE . 21.
... enemy's camps but was not sure what they meant . He reminded Lincoln of his standing instructions to shield Wash- ington at all times , and wondered how loosely he might interpret this directive . If the enemy was moving northward and ...