High Tide At Gettysburg: The Campaign In Pennsylvania - 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 High Tide At Gettysburg: The Campaign In Pennsylvania write by Glenn Tucker. This book was released on 2015-11-06. High Tide At Gettysburg: The Campaign In Pennsylvania available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ““Gettysburg had everything,” Henry S. Commager recently wrote. “It was the greatest battle ever fought on our continent; it boasts more heroic chapters than any other one battle. It was the high tide of the Confederacy.” This is the way Glenn Tucker has always seen it and this is the way he reports it in High Tide at Gettysburg. The story of Gettysburg has never been told better, perhaps never so well as in this volume. Glenn Tucker has the immediacy of a war correspondent on the spot along with the insights that come from painstaking research. The armies live again in his pages. In his big, generous book Glenn Tucker has room to follow Lee’s army up from Chancellorsville across Maryland into Pennsylvania. With Jackson recently killed, Lee had revamped his top command. When Meade’s men caught up with the Confederates and the two armies were probing to locate each other’s concentrations, Mr. Tucker’s account becomes sharper, more dramatic. His rapidly moving, vivid narrative of the three-day battle is filled with fascinating episodes and fresh, stimulating appraisals. Glenn Tucker is akin to Ernie Pyle in his interest in people. With him you meet Harry King Burgwyn, “boy colonel” of the 26th North Carolina, just turned twenty-one, who slugged it out with Col. Henry A. Morrow of the 24th Michigan until few survived on either side. You feel the patriotic surge of white-haired William Barksdale, who led his Mississippians on the “grandest charge of the war” and died as he broke the Federal line. You sense the magnetism of Hancock the Superb, and feel the driving power of rugged Uncle John Sedgwick as he hurried his big VI Corps to the battlefield. With Old Man Greene you struggle in the darkness to save the Culp’s Hill trenches. And much more. Mr. Tucker weaves in many sharp thumbnail biographical sketches without slowing the action. Many North Carolinians, previously slighted, here receive their due. Full, dramatic, immediate, here is Gettysburg.”
Witness to Gettysburg
Witness to 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 Witness to Gettysburg write by Richard Wheeler. This book was released on 2006-01-20. Witness to Gettysburg available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the events that led to the clash at Gettysburg in July 1863 to the retreat of Robert E. Lee's defeated Confederates, Richard Wheeler uses the words of participants--both Northern and Southern--to bring one of the Civil War's bloodiest, most pivotal battles to life.
Gettysburg July 1
Gettysburg July 1 - 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 Gettysburg July 1 write by David G. Martin. This book was released on 1995-09-21. Gettysburg July 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Combines scholarly interpretations and the author's own analysis to present a tactical account of the critical first day of the Civil War's greatest battle.
Barksdale's Charge
Barksdale's Charge - 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 Barksdale's Charge write by Phillip Thomas Tucker. This book was released on 2013-07-24. Barksdale's Charge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is “never a dull moment” in this “excellent account” of an overlooked Confederate triumph during the Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg (San Francisco Book Review). While many Civil War buffs celebrate Picket’s Charge as the climactic moment of the Battle of Gettysburg, the Confederate Army’s true high point had come the afternoon before. When Longstreet’s corps triumphantly entered the battle, the Federals just barely held on. The foremost Rebel spearhead on that second day of the battle was Brig. Gen. William Barksdale’s Mississippi brigade, which launched what one Union observer called the “grandest charge that was ever seen by mortal man.” On the second day of Gettysburg, the Federal left was not as vulnerable as Lee had envisioned, but had cooperated with Rebel wishes by extending its Third Corps into a salient. When Longstreet finally gave Barksdale the go-ahead, the Mississippians utterly crushed the peach orchard salient and continued marauding up to Cemetery Ridge. Hancock, Meade, and other Union generals had to gather men from four different corps to try to stem the onslaught. Barksdale himself was killed at the apex of his advance. Darkness, as well as Confederate exhaustion, finally ended the day’s fight as the shaken, depleted Federal units took stock. They had barely held on against the full ferocity of the Rebels on a day that would decide the fate of the nation.
Receding Tide
Receding Tide - 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 Receding Tide write by Edwin C. Bearss. This book was released on 2010. Receding Tide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A single day: July 4, 1863, brought to a conclusion two of the most infamous battles of the Civil War. This book tells the story of these two pivotal battles.
