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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... force at Chancel- lorsville , near Fredericksburg . The details of this action had reached the city largely through ... forces defending the capital , was wounded , Davis had surprised everyone by putting his military adviser in charge ...
... forces to capture it . Now a fresh campaign was under way , and this time the prognosis was not good for the Confederates . On May 14 , word reached Richmond that Vicksburg's vital inland link , the city of Jackson , had been taken by ...
... forces defending the Atlantic coast from South Carolina to Florida . Argu- ing that the summer swamp fevers common ... force him to relinquish the line he was holding at Fredericksburg and fall back on Richmond , thus abandon- ing much ...
... force back across the Rappahannock River but to destroy its military effectiveness. In the next campaign he hoped to find the battle of annihi- lation he had tried and failed to manage at Chancellorsville. All other rea- sons proffered ...
... force numbered about 72,300 men at that point and would eventually grow to nearly 80,000. However, the Con- federate commander refused to play according to Hooker's script, even when the Union corps that had been left behind to divert ...