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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... passed the still-smoldering ruins of the Crenshaw Mill. This neighboring five-story brick building had burst into flame at around two o'clock that morning, sending “volumes of sparks far away through the night.” Some 140 workers, men ...
... passed away . . . . It does not now appear prob- able to me that you can gain anything by an early renewal of the attempt to cross the Rappahannock . " Far more chilling , though , was the president's closing comment : “ I must tell you ...
... passed in review first at a walk and then at a thundering gallop. The massed horse artillery fired salutes.” A trooper in a Virginia regiment declared the whole affair “one of the grandest sights I had ever beheld.” Only when the ...
... passed his memo on to Henry Halleck for his comments . The hated Halleck finished writing his own reply to Hooker forty minutes after the president . Reiterating that Washington's defense depended upon the supporting presence of the ...
... passed a column of Longstreet's troops that included the 17th Mississippi. The general was roughly dressed for travel and, surrounded by his mounted detail, looked for all the world like a man under arrest. The spectacle caused one ...