Author : Tillie Pierce Alleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781519045522
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (455 download)
Book Synopsis At Gettysburg, Or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle (Expanded, Annotated) by : Tillie Pierce Alleman
Download or read book At Gettysburg, Or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle (Expanded, Annotated) written by Tillie Pierce Alleman and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered one of the most vibrant and compelling accounts of the battle of Gettysburg by a young resident of the town. Fifteen year old Matilda "Tillie" Pierce saw Union general Buford enter town with his cavalry, saw the rout of the first day of fighting, and the Confederates streaming through the town. She gave water to many Union soldiers, including General George Gordon Meade, the new commander of the Army of the Potomac.She went on to help the nurses and surgeons care for wounded at a house down on Taneytown Road, sitting to comfort the dying General Stephen Weed. Tillie saw the mangled bodies of men and horses, and the incredible destruction of the fields and farms.A quarter-century later, Tillie, now married and a mother, sat down and penned this remarkable account for her family.Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.