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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... soldier in the Third Corps by the name of John Haley weighed the moment with the fatalistic outlook of a veteran: he ... soldiers in the Eleventh Corps hailed from Ger- many, a circumstance that made them handy scapegoats. Sergeant Ben ...
... soldier . “ They runn like sheep . ” All of this contumely came as a rude surprise to the Eleventh Corps soldiers ... soldiers bearing copies of newspapers heaping scorn on the Eleventh . The men bluntly asked " if such be the reward ...
... soldiers, in the words of one Michigan man, “were directed to pitch tents and quiet our- selves down into the ... soldier's life. A formal review presented just such an opportunity, and besides, he wanted to take full advantage of the ...
... soldier standing in support watched in amazement as " the whole plain , on the further side , . . . [ became ] a sheet ... soldiers slogged through a heavy thundershower that left them , in the words of one , “ wet and very cold . " Most ...
... soldiers recrossed the Rappahannock than they were ordered to set out at once on roads leading north. Richard S. Ewell began marching his corps north from Culpeper on June 10. An artilleryman in one of the long, snaking columns ...