Unsung Hero of 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 Unsung Hero of Gettysburg write by Edward G. Longacre. This book was released on 2021-05. Unsung Hero of Gettysburg available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unsung Hero of Gettysburg explores the services of the honorable but neglected general of the Potomac Army, David McMurtrie Gregg, during Gettysburg, the pivotal battle of the Civil War.
Unsung Hero of Gettysburg
Unsung Hero of 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 Unsung Hero of Gettysburg write by Edward G. Longacre. This book was released on 2021-05. Unsung Hero of Gettysburg available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Longacre's superb book addresses a significant gap in our understanding of the United States' victory in the American Civil War. --Barbara A. Gannon, Pennsylvania Heritage Gen. David McMurtrie Gregg (1833-1917) was one of the ablest and most successful commanders of cavalry in any Civil War army. Pennsylvania-born, West Point-educated, and deeply experienced in cavalry operations prior to the conflict, his career personified that of the typical cavalry officer in the mid-nineteenth-century American army. Gregg achieved distinction on many battlefields, including those during the Peninsula, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristoe, Overland, and Petersburg campaigns, ultimately gaining the rank of brevet major general as leader of the Second Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac. The highlight of his service occurred on July 3, 1863, the climactic third day at Gettysburg, when he led his own command as well as the brigade of Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer in repulsing an attempt by thousands of Confederate cavalry under the legendary J. E. B. Stuart in attacking the right flank and rear of the Union Army while Pickett's charge struck its front and center. Historians credit Gregg with helping preserve the security of his army at a critical point, making Union victory inevitable. Unlike glory-hunters such as Custer and Stuart, Gregg was a quietly competent veteran who never promoted himself or sought personal recognition for his service. Rarely has a military commander of such distinction been denied a biographer's tribute. Gregg's time is long overdue.
Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday - 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 Abner Doubleday write by Thomas Barthel. This book was released on 2014-01-10. Abner Doubleday available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While Abner Doubleday is remembered primarily, and mistakenly, for having "invented" baseball (he did not), it was his selfless exercise of duty to his nation that should be honored. Following his youth in Auburn, New York, and his days as a cadet at West Point to the Union general's involvement in the American Civil War and his public service afterwards, he is revealed in this biography as a man who took unpopular stands but was guided by a firm vision of justice. One chapter fully explores the baseball myth.
Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake
Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake - 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 to Great Salt Lake write by John Gary Maxwell. This book was released on 2010. Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. George R. Maxwell, son of Reuben Maxwell and Mary Elizabeth Heritage, was born in 1842 in Monroe County, Michigan. He married Emma Belle Turner (d. 1866), daughter of James Lawrence Turner, in 1865. He married Mary Ann Sprague, daughter of Samuel Lindsey Sprague, in 1872. They had three children. He died in 1889.
Meade at Gettysburg
Meade 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 Meade at Gettysburg write by Kent Masterson Brown, Esq.. This book was released on 2021-05-03. Meade at Gettysburg available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although he took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the first shots were fired at Gettysburg, Union general George G. Meade guided his forces to victory in the Civil War's most pivotal battle. Commentators often dismiss Meade when discussing the great leaders of the Civil War. But in this long-anticipated book, Kent Masterson Brown draws on an expansive archive to reappraise Meade's leadership during the Battle of Gettysburg. Using Meade's published and unpublished papers alongside diaries, letters, and memoirs of fellow officers and enlisted men, Brown highlights how Meade's rapid advance of the army to Gettysburg on July 1, his tactical control and coordination of the army in the desperate fighting on July 2, and his determination to hold his positions on July 3 insured victory. Brown argues that supply deficiencies, brought about by the army's unexpected need to advance to Gettysburg, were crippling. In spite of that, Meade pursued Lee's retreating army rapidly, and his decision not to blindly attack Lee's formidable defenses near Williamsport on July 13 was entirely correct in spite of subsequent harsh criticism. Combining compelling narrative with incisive analysis, this finely rendered work of military history deepens our understanding of the Army of the Potomac as well as the machinations of the Gettysburg Campaign, restoring Meade to his rightful place in the Gettysburg narrative.
