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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... corps numbered about 30,000 muskets , gave the corps com- manders “ more than one man can properly handle & keep under his eye in battle . " Under Lee's new scheme , as recalled by his aide Major Walter Taylor , each of the " corps ...
... Corps . Born in South Carolina and raised in Georgia , the forty - two - year - old officer had initially favored tolerating a stalemate in the East while reinforcements were sent west . A lengthy dis- cussion with Lee , however , had ...
... corps would lead the way in the upcoming operation . The new Third Corps was constructed of elements drawn from the First and Second , along with other units that had recently been added to the Army of Northern Virginia . Ambrose Powell ...
... corps commanders. Nor did he likely give them any specific orders beyond designating routes for the first stage of the coming movement. Of the campaign's overall shape, Longstreet recollected it thus: “The enemy would be on our right ...
... corps from Lee's army , along with one division from his third corps . Following his orders , that lone division marched off toward Culpeper on June 3. On the night of June 4 , Lee also began to move almost all of Ewell's Corps to that ...