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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... took ten dollars to buy what one dollar had purchased just three years earlier. Nearly lost among the worried minions entering their workplaces this day was a clerk in the Confederate War Department named John Beauchamp Jones. Jones ...
... by Brigadier General David McMurtrie Gregg, separated, with one portion pushing due west to Stevensburg while the other took a road leading north to Brandy Station. Brandy Station N Munford Beverly's Ford W. H. F. Lee 30 GETTYSBURG.
... took the threat seriously. That complacency, coupled with enlistment terms that many found unappealing, resulted in a response that was, in the words of one resident, “not . . . as general and prompt as desired.” In Washington ...
... took place two days after Balson's. This time the cause was military justice. Parts of Hooker's army were moving just then, as their commander repositioned his strength northward, fretting about a Rebel retaliatory strike for Brandy ...
... took full advantage of it. In a note to his family, Henry King Burgwyn Jr. displayed some of the ambition that had helped to make him one of the Confederacy's youngest colonels. Looking ahead to the prospect of an active campaign ...
Contents
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It begins to look as though we will have a battle soon | 127 |
Battle | 144 |
July 1 1863 | 152 |
Night Wednesday July 1 | 273 |
Night Thursday July 2 | 423 |
Endings and Beginnings | 543 |
Judgments | 550 |
Afterward | 557 |
Chapter Notes | 597 |
Bibliography | 643 |
Index | 679 |