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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... reached Richmond that Vicksburg's vital inland link , the city of Jackson , had been taken by Union forces under a general named Grant . “ This is a dark cloud over the hopes of patriots , ” John Beauchamp Jones noted . He added in his ...
... reached a somewhat sheltered bend in the river near a point they knew as Franklin's Crossing . There they waited in the hot sun while Rebel pickets on the opposite bank jeered them . At around 4:00 P.M. , the leading elements of ...
... reached Culpeper “ early on Sunday morning , June 7. ” Hood's and McLaws ' divisions of Longstreet's Corps were on hand to greet Ewell's men , who would continue to arrive throughout the day . The sta- tus report that Lee sent to ...
... reached Alexandria , Vir- Stephenson's Depot Milroy McReynolds ( Milroy ) Berryville Winchester Ewell Jenkins Front Royal Early ohnson Rodes ( + Jenkins ) Shenandoah River Cedar- ville Potomac Point of Rocks Barnesville Poolesville June ...
... reached its destination because Ewell's men cut the telegraph wires as they closed in . Milroy was left with no option but to stand fast . President Lincoln , monitoring the situation through the War Depart- ment , could not believe ...