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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... headquarters, Hooker had boasted that Lee's army was the “legitimate property of the Army of the Potomac.” Even Lincoln, always anxious to encourage aggressiveness in his generals, worried to a friend, after hearing Hooker's predictions ...
... headquarters when, comparing the army that had marched into Maryland in 1862 with the one gathered around Fredericksburg in 1863, he judged the latter “bet- ter disciplined and far more efficient.” Private David E. Johnston of George ...
... headquarters at Fredericksburg , he sent a telegram to the War Department requesting that all convalescents and other soldiers returning from leave " be forwarded to Culpeper Court House instead of this place . ” " The rascals are up to ...
... headquarters already thinking about his next move. In a letter written earlier that day to Secretary of War Seddon, he had urged that “every exertion [be] made to obtain some material advan- tage in this campaign.” The next steps were ...
... headquarters with messages for the various corps commanders, instructing them to be ready to move. It would take until nightfall for Hooker to remove Sedg- wick's men from the southern bank, but that was just the beginning: no sooner ...