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Stephen W. Sears has delivered a masterwork in Gettysburg, his single-volume history of the Civil War's greatest campaign. Drawing on original source material, from soldiers' letters to the Official Records of the war, Sears offers dramatic and informed accounts of every aspect of the... read more
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- Robert E. Lee: Add a description of this character.
- Meade
- Dick Ewell
- Pickett
- Stuart
- Culp
- Joe Hooker
- John Reynolds
- Hancock
- A. P. Hill
- Buford
- Howard
- Pettigrew
- Rodes
- Davis
- Anderson
- Halleck
- Slocum
- Hood
- Pleasonton
- Mcclellan
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- Edward Porter Alexander
- Harper
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- Henry Hunt
- Jackson
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- Lincoln
- John Gibbon
- Caldwell
- Harry Heth
- Dan Sickles
- Wainwright
- Humphreys
- Smith
- Milroy
- Doubleday
- Seddon
- Robertson
- Barksdale
Setting & Locations edit
- Pennsylvania
- New York
- Virginia
- Washington
- Gettysburg
- Maryland
- Richmond
- North Carolina
- Mississippi
- Cemetery Ridge
- Maine
- Fredericksburg
- Massachusetts
- Cemetery Hill
- Vicksburg
- Alabama
- Chambersburg
- Longstreet
- Harrisburg
- Wisconsin
- Emmitsburg Road
- North Carolinians
- United States
- Cashtown
- Michigan
- Ohio
- Texas
- Winchester
- Indiana
- South Carolina
- Taneytown
- New Jersey
- South Mountain
- Sharpsburg
- Loudoun Valley
- Millerstown Road
- Union
- Seminary Ridge
- Georgia
- Baltimore
- Tennessee
- Minnesota
- Potomac
- Blue Ridge
- Shenandoah Valley
- Falmouth
First Sentence edit
JOHN BEAUCHAMP JONES, the observant, gossipy clerk in the War Department in Richmond, took note in his diary under date of May 15, 1863, that General Lee had come down from his headquarters on the Rappahannock and was conferring at the Department.
Table of Contents edit
List of Maps
Introduction
1. We Should Assume the Aggressive
2. High Command in Turmoil
3. The Risk of Action
4. Armies on the March
5. Into the Enemy's Country
6. High Stakes in Pennsylvania
7. A Meeting Engagement
8. The God of Battles Smiles South
9. We May As Well Fight It Out Here
10. A Simile of Hell Broke Loose
11. Determined to Do or Die
12. A Magnificient Display of Guns
13. The Grand Charge
14. A Long Road Back
Epilogue: Great God! What Does It Mean?
The Armies at Gettysburg
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Stephen W. Sears (Author)
Awards edit
- Fletcher Pratt Award (2003)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 973.7349
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › Civil War › Campaigns › Gettysburg
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