The Battle of Gettysburg: The Country, the Contestants, the Results
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The bloody, three-day battle of Gettysburg in the summer of 1863 resulted in thousands of casualties on both sides. Considered the turning point of the Civil War, the campaign rallied the Union troops. A few weeks after the epic military confrontation, Colonel Frank Haskell, a member of the Army of the Potomac, wrote his brother in Wisconsin a highly moving account of what he had experienced. It was perhaps the longest, most poignant letter to a relative from a soldier in the Civil War. Some 45 years later, his comments appeared in book format; this volume is a reprint of that rare edition.In ...
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- CONTENTS
- THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG The Country The Contestants The Results
- FOREWORD
- THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS ·XIX NOVEMBER·MDCCCLXIII· ★
- THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
- Location of the Armies.
- General Lee’s Plan.
- Lee’s First Movement.
- Hooker’s Plan.
- The Appointment of Meade.
- Advance of Lee.
- Meade’s Movement.
- Stuart’s Movement.
- Situation of Confederate Forces on June 30th.
- Situation of Union Forces on June 30th.
- The Approach.
- THE FIRST DAY
- Arrival of Reynolds.
- Death of Reynolds.
- A Morning Lull.
- Arrival of Rodes and Early.
- The Opposing Lines.
- Arrival of Howard.
- Howard’s Position.
- The Confederate General Early’s Position.
- The Union Retreat.
- Arrival of Lee.
- Formation of Union Line.
- General Lee’s Report.
- FIRST DAY HIGHLIGHTS
- Death of Major-General Reynolds
- The 26th Emergency Regiment
- The First Soldier Killed at Gettysburg
- A Mysterious Letter
- The Flag of the 16th Maine
- The Barlow-Gordon Incident
- General Ewell Is Hit by a Bullet
- The School Teachers’ Regiment
- An Incident of the First Day
- THE SECOND DAY
- The Union Line of Battle.
- Confederate Line of Battle.
- Sickles’ Change of Line.
- General Lee’s Plan.
- Little Round Top.
- The Peach Orchard and the Wheatfield.
- Ewell’s Attack on Meade’s Right.
- Situation at End of the Second Day.
- INCIDENTS OF THE SECOND DAY
- The Roger House
- Spangler’s Spring
- Colonel Avery’s Lost Grave
- The Leister House
- The Louisiana Tigers
- General Meade’s “Baldy”
- General Lee’s “Traveller”
- THE THIRD DAY
- Second Battle at Culp’s Hill.
- Meade’s Line of the Third Day.
- Lee’s Line of the Third Day.
- The Bliss Buildings.
- The Artillery Duel.
- Pickett’s Charge.
- The Advance.
- Engagements on the Union Left.
- The Cavalry Fight on the Right Flank.
- The Location.
- General Stuart’s Plan.
- General Gregg’s Report.
- Lee’s Retreat.
- No Pursuit by Meade.
- The Gettysburg Carnage.
- HAPPENINGS ON THE THIRD DAY
- A Medal for Disobedience
- The Wentz House
- Fought with a Hatchet
- After the Battle
- An Honest Man
- Extracts from the Diary of Colonel Fremantle
- GETTYSBURG AND ITS MILITARY PARK
- THE SOLDIERS’ NATIONAL CEMETERY
- LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG
- HARVEST
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC Major-General George G. Meade
- ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA General Robert E. Lee
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