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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... recalled , " assembled early . . . and remained in session in the anxious dis- cussion of that campaign until after nightfall . ” To his dying day the Texan would believe that a critical decision was made during this meeting , though in ...
... recalled by his aide Major Walter Taylor , each of the " corps embraced three divisions ; one of the divisions of the Second Corps and one of the Third had five brigades ; all the others had four brigades . The artillery was also ...
... recalled Ewell as being “ a queer character , very eccentric , but upright , brave and devoted . He had no high talent but did all that a brave man of moderate capacity could . " Lee himself publicly described his Second Corps commander ...
... recalled June 10 as the day they buried Edwin H. Balson , a victim of lung congestion . “ He was nineteen years old , an excel- lent soldier , liked by officers and men , ” recalled a batterymate . Balson was laid to rest at sundown ...
... recalled it as a “ hot day ” and noted that “ many were stricken by the intense heat . " The continued presence of Union troops across the river ( Hancock's rear guard ) gave Hill enough pause that he kept Heth's and Pender's divisions ...