Gettysburg : the last invasion / Allen C. Guelzo.
From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a new history--the most intimate and richly readable account we have had--of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced one of the greatest battles in human history. No previous book on Gettysburg dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice.--From publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307594082
- ISBN: 0307594084
- ISBN: 9780307740694
- ISBN: 0307740692
- Physical Description: xix, 632 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-599) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Part 1 March Up -- Chapter 1 People who will not give in 9 -- Chapter 2 There were never such men in an army before 16 -- Chapter 3 This Campaign is going to end this show 32 -- Chapter 4 A perfectly surplus body of men 46 -- Chapter 5 Victory will inevitably attend our arms 64 -- Chapter 6 A goggle-eyed old snapping turtle 80 -- Chapter 7 A universal panic prevails 99 -- Chapter 8 You will have to fight like the devil to hold your own 115 -- Part 2 First Day -- Chapter 9 Devil's to pay 139 -- Chapter 10 You stand alone, between the Rebel Army and your homes! 155 -- Chapter 11 Dutch run and leave us to fight 177 -- Chapter 12 Go in, South Carolina! 198 -- Chapter 13 If the enemy is there to-morrow, we must attack him 212 -- Part 3 Second Day -- Chapter 14 One of the bigger bubbles of the scum 235 -- Chapter 15 You are to hold this ground at all costs 257 -- Chapter 16 I have never been in a hotter place 276 -- Chapter 17 Supreme moment of the war had come 304 -- Chapter 18 Remember Harper's Ferry! 322 -- Chapter 19 We are the Louisiana Tigers! 335 -- Chapter 20 Let us have no more retreats 353 -- Part 4 Third Day -- Chapter 21 General plan of attack was unchanged 373 -- Chapter 22 Are you going to do your duty today? 388 -- Chapter 23 Shadow of a cloud across a sunny field 405 -- Chapter 24 As clear a defeat as our army ever met with 427 -- Chapter 25 There is bad faith somewhere 441 -- Chapter 26 To Sweep & plunder the battle grounds 466.
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