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 country breaks up all of his preconceived plans , relieves our country of his presence , and we subsist while there on his resources . " Lee undoubtedly reiterated his claim to Major General George E. Pickett's division , then ...
... enemy's breadbasket, Lee could help himself to a rich larder of livestock and grains, as well as a large, ambiguous category of goods euphemistically termed “military supplies.” Drawing the point of battle away from northern Virginia ...
... enemy had come to headquarters through dozens of different channels , and there had been no systematic means for sorting the useful from the useless . An important part of the brief for Sharpe and his staff was to collate these various ...
... enemy had crossed a force [ over the Rappahannock River ] at Fredericksburg in front of [ A. P. ] Hill . ” Similar messages went to Johnson's and Rodes ' divisions , stopping all of Ewell's Corps in its tracks . Robert E. Lee had ...
... 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 ...