“Double Canister at Ten Yards” - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook “Double Canister at Ten Yards” write by David Shultz. This book was released on 2017-02-15. “Double Canister at Ten Yards” available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gettysburg is one of the most famous and studied battles of history, and Pickett’s Charge, its climax on the third day, continues to fascinate a new generation of readers. Most accounts of the grand assault focus on General Robert E. Lee’s reasons for making the charge, its preparation, organization, and ultimate failure. Author David Shultz, however, in “Double Canister at Ten Yards”: The Federal Artillery and the Repulse of Pickett’s Charge, July 3, 1863, focuses his examination on how and why the Union long-arm beat back the Confederate foot soldiers. After two days of heavy fighting on July 1 and 2, 1863, the commander of the Army of the Potomac, Maj. General George G. Meade, correctly surmised General Lee would remain on the offensive on July 3 and strike the Union center on Cemetery Ridge. Meade informed Maj. Gen. Winfield Hancock, whose infantry lined the ridge, that his sector would bear the brunt on the morrow and to prepare accordingly. Meade also warned to his capable chief of artillery, Brig. Gen. Henry J. Hunt, and tasked him with preparing his guns to deal with the approaching assault. Shultz, who has studied Gettysburg for decades and walked every yard of its hallowed ground, uses official reports, letters, diaries, and other accounts to meticulously explain how Hunt and his officers and men worked tirelessly that night and well into July 3 to organize a lethal package of orchestrated destruction to greet Lee’s vaunted infantry in an effort that would be hailed by many historians as “The High Water Mark of the Confederacy.” The war witnessed many large scale assaults and artillery bombardments, but no example of defensive gunnery was more destructive than the ring of direct frontal and full-flank enfilading fire Hunt’s batteries unleashed upon Lee’s assaulting columns. The iron rain broke and drove back the massed attack within a short time, leaving a fraction of the attacking force to cross the Emmitsburg Road to scale the deadly Ridge. “Double Canister at Ten Yards” will change the way you look at Pickett’s Charge, and leave you wondering yet again why an officer as experienced and gifted as General Lee ordered it in the first place.
Double Canister at Ten Yards
Double Canister at Ten Yards - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Double Canister at Ten Yards write by Louis J. Hebel. This book was released on 1858. Double Canister at Ten Yards available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The accession contains a carbon copy typescript of "Double canister at ten yards, ". The work is an account of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg through the eyes of Captain Andrew Cowan, who commanded the First New York Independent Battery, Artillery Brigade, VI Corps, Army of the Potomac. The work also contains a map of the battle field and a photographic reproduction of two Cowan portraits during two periods of his life. The appendix contains a transcription of the report of Captain Cowan following the Battle of Gettysburg.
The Second Day at Gettysburg
The Second Day at Gettysburg - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Second Day at Gettysburg write by David Schultz. This book was released on 2015-10-30. The Second Day at Gettysburg available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Emphasize[s] the role of Winfield Scott Hancock . . . [and] the Second Corps in plugging the gap and saving the day for the Union.” —Gettysburg Magazine On the afternoon of July 2, 1863, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet struck the Union left flank with a massive blow that collapsed Dan Sickles’ advanced position in the Peach Orchard and rolled northward, tearing open a large gap in the center of the Federal line on Cemetery Ridge. Fresh Confederates from A. P. Hill’s Corps advanced toward the mile-wide breach, where Southern success would split the Army of the Potomac in two. The fate of the Battle of Gettysburg hung in the balance. Despite the importance of the position, surprisingly few Union troops were available to defend Cemetery Ridge. Major General Winfield S. Hancock’s veteran Second Corps had been whittled from three divisions to less than one after Gibbon’s division was sucked into earlier fighting and Caldwell’s command was shattered in the Wheatfield. With little time and few men, Hancock determined to plug the yawning gap. Reprising Horatio at the Bridge, the gallant commander cobbled together various commands and refused to yield the precious acres in Plum Run ravine. The swirling seesaw fighting lasted for hours and included hand-to-hand combat and personal heroics of which legends are made. The Second Day at Gettysburg expands on David Shultz and David Wieck’s critically acclaimed earlier work The Battle Between the Farm Lanes. This completely revised and expanded study, which includes new photographs, original maps, and a self-guided tour of the fighting, is grounded in extensive research and unmatched personal knowledge of the terrain.
Pickett's Charge--The Last Attack at Gettysburg
Pickett's Charge--The Last Attack at Gettysburg - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pickett's Charge--The Last Attack at Gettysburg write by Earl J. Hess. This book was released on 2011-07-01. Pickett's Charge--The Last Attack at Gettysburg available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett's Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military action of the Civil War. He transforms exhaustive research into a moving narrative account of the assault from both Union and Confederate perspectives, analyzing its planning, execution, aftermath, and legacy.
Robert McCulloch
Robert McCulloch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Robert McCulloch write by C. C. Woods. This book was released on 1915. Robert McCulloch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
