Gettysburg: The Last InvasionWinner of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History An Economist Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Battle of Gettysburg has been written about at length and thoroughly dissected in terms of strategic importance, but never before has a book taken readers so close to the experience of the individual soldier. Two-time Lincoln Prize winner Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the stone walls and gunpowder clouds of Pickett’s Charge; the reason that the Army of Northern Virginia could be smelled before it could be seen; the march of thousands of men from the banks of the Rappahannock in Virginia to the Pennsylvania hills. What emerges is a previously untold story of army life in the Civil War: from the personal politics roiling the Union and Confederate officer ranks, to the peculiar character of artillery units. Through such scrutiny, one of history’s epic battles is given extraordinarily vivid new life. |
Contents
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The March | 126 |
CHAPTER TWELVE Go in South Carolina | 198 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN If the enemy is there tomorrow we must attack | 212 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN One of the bigger bubbles of the scum | 235 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN You are to hold this ground at all costs | 257 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN I have never been in a hotter place | 276 |
CHAPTER ONE People who will not give | 483 |
CHAPTER FIVE Victory will inevitably attend our arms | 500 |
CHAPTER SEVEN A universal panic prevails | 508 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The supreme moment of the war had come | 515 |
CHAPTER NINE The devils to | 517 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN The dutch run and leave us to fight | 527 |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Remember Harpers Ferry | 561 |
CHAPTER TWENTYTWO Are you going to do your duty today? | 576 |
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