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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... noted . He added in his diary that Vicksburg's loss " would be the worst blow we have yet suffered . " Men were so urgently needed on that front that a number of govern- ment officials wondered aloud if Lee might not be able to spare ...
... won as he watched the " long column " of Pickett's Division marching “ through the city northward , ” even as Reagan and his colleagues struggled for consen- sus. “Gen. Lee,” Jones noted, “is now stronger than he PROLOGUE 5 LO.
... noted, “is now stronger than he was before the battle [of Chancellorsville].” When Lee paid a social call that evening, he seemed anything but thin or pale. One young man who saw him would never forget the “superb figure of our hero ...
... was voiced by Lieutenant Frank Haskell, an otherwise perceptive Second Corps officer, who noted that the “Dutchmen . . . ran . . . before they had delivered a shot.” “As for this last defeat they lay it all to the 12 GETTYSBURG.
... noted, “i can get up on our brest works an see the enemy on there brest works any time in the day.” It would become common for postwar Southern writers to proclaim that Lee's army was nearly bursting with confidence following Chancel ...