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Description edit
Historian/novelist Foote's masterly work has been culled from his critically acclaimed three-volume narrative of the Civil War. 7 cassettes.
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Lee: Add a description of this character.
- Meade
- Ewell
- Hancock
- Pickett
- A. P. Hill
- Rodes
- Hood
- Stuart
- Davis
- Pettigrew
- Howard
- Halleck
- Culp
- Pender
- Johnson
- Slocum
- Anderson
- Gibbon
- Hooker
- Hays
- Stonewall Jackson
- Reynolds
- Lincoln
- Kilpatrick
- Wilcox
- Old Peter
- Sedgwick
- Wright
- Lang
- Alexander
- Buford
- Garnett
- Chancellorsville
- Barksdale
- Doubleday
- Mcpherson
- Longstreet
- Trimble
- Wadsworth
- Frederick
- Johnston
- Oates
- Armistead
- Herr Ridge
- Mcclellan
- Sykes
- Warren
Setting & Locations edit
- Virginia
- Washington
- Gettysburg
- Cemetery Ridge
- Pennsylvania
- Emmitsburg Road
- Cemetery Hill
- Mississippi
- Richmond
- Maryland
- Cashtown
- Chambersburg
- Union
- Vicksburg
- York
- Alabama
- Seminary Ridge
- Texas
- Williamsport
- North Carolina
- Winchester
- Taneytown Road
- West Point
- Hagerstown
- Sharpsburg
- South Mountain
- Harrisburg
- Manassas
- Maine
- Valley
- Potomac
Organizations edit
- Army of the Potomac: Union army involved in this campaign, led by General Meade during the Battle of Gettysburg.
- Army of Northern Virgina: Confederate army invovled in this campaign, lead by General Lee from 1862 to the end of the war in 1865.
First Sentence edit
Whatever lack of nerve if ingenuity had been demonstrated in Mississippi throughout the long hot hungry weeks that Vicksburg shuddered under assault and languished under siege, there had been no shortage elsewhere in the Confederate States of either of these qualities on which the beleaguered city's hopes were hung.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Shelby Foote (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 973.7349
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