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Author : Harris Mullen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964662919
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Confederate Generals at Gettysburg - A Field Guide written by Harris Mullen and published by . This book was released on 1996-06-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Reardon
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469608189
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book A Field Guide to Gettysburg written by Carol Reardon and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively guide to the Gettysburg battlefield, Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler invite readers to participate in a tour of this hallowed ground. Ideal for carrying on trips through the park as well as for the armchair historian, this book includes comprehensive maps and deft descriptions of the action that situate visitors in time and place. Crisp narratives introduce key figures and events, and eye-opening vignettes help readers more fully comprehend the import of what happened and why. A wide variety of contemporary and postwar source materials offer colorful stories and present interesting interpretations that have shaped--or reshaped--our understanding of Gettysburg today. Each stop addresses the following: What happened here? Who fought here? Who commanded here? Who fell here? Who lived here? How did participants remember this event?
Author : Carol Reardon
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469633353
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book A Field Guide to Gettysburg, Second Edition Expanded Ebook written by Carol Reardon and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special enhanced ebook edition to the newly updated A Field Guide to Gettysburg will lead visitors to every important site across the battlefield and also give them ways to envision the action and empathize with the soldiers involved and the local people into whose lives and lands the battle intruded.. Both Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler are themselves experienced guides who understand what visitors to Gettysburg are interested in, but they also bring the unique perspectives of a scholar and a former army officer. Divided into three day-long tours, this newly improved and expanded edition offers important historical background and context for the reader while providing answers to six key questions: What happened here? Who fought here? Who commanded here? Who fell here? Who lived here? And what did the participants have to say about it later? With new stops, maps, soldier vignettes, and illustrations, the enhanced e-book edition of A Field Guide to Gettysburg adds more human stories to an already impressive work that remains the most comprehensive guide to the events and history of this pivotal battle of the Civil War.
Author : J. Howard Wert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Complete Hand-book of the Monuments and Indications and Guide to the Positions on the Gettysburg Battlefield written by J. Howard Wert and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Department of Defense
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781973175643
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (756 download)
Download or read book Complete Guide to the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg - Covering Troops, Biographical Sketches of Leaders, Weaponry, Small Arms, 150th Anniversary, Strategic Setting, Operational Art, Legacy written by Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the full story of Battle of Gettysburg, one of the most crucial battles of the Civil War occurring at a time when the fate of the nation literally hung in the balance. 2013 marked the 150th anniversary of this historic victory by Union forces. The Union "Army of the Potomac", long the nemesis of Lee's army in Virginia, met the Confederate invasion at the Pennsylvania crossroads town of Gettysburg. Under the command of Major General George Gordon Meade, the Union army fought with a desperation not always seen before on other battlefields. Despite initial Confederate success, the battle turned against Lee on July 3rd, and with few options remaining to him, the general ordered his army back to Virginia. The Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg resulted not only in Lee's retreat to Virginia but an end to the hopes of the Confederacy for independence. This major book compendium provides a unique overview of the battle, with coverage of all aspects of the battle, troops, biographical sketches of Union and Confederate leaders, descriptions of weaponry and small arms, a full reproduction of the new history of the battle from the Army Center of Military History, and the Army's Gettysburg Staff Ride Briefing book. Briefing book contents include: Order of Battle - Army of the Potomac, Order of Battle - Army of Northern Virginia, Casualties, Organization, Logistics, Small Arms, Artillery, Tactics, Gettysburg weather reports, Selected Biographical Sketches of Union Leaders, Lincoln, Stanton, Halleck, Meade, Chamberlain, Hancock, Howard, Reynolds, Sedgwick, Sickles, Slocum, Sykes, Selected Biographical Sketches of Confederate Leaders, Davis, Lee, Ewell, Hill, A. P., Longstreet, Pickett, Stuart, Chronology of Events of the Civil War - 1863, Chamberlain and the 20th Maine at Little Round Top, Selected reports and cables. The battle brought devastation to the residents of Gettysburg. Every farm field or garden was a graveyard. Churches, public buildings and even private homes were hospitals, filled with wounded soldiers. The Union medical staff that remained were strained to treat so many wounded scattered about the county. To meet the demand, Camp Letterman General Hospital was established east of Gettysburg where all of the wounded were eventually taken to before transport to permanent hospitals in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. Union surgeons worked with members of the U.S Sanitary Commission and Christian Commission to treat and care for the over 20,000 injured Union and Confederate soldiers that passed through the hospital's wards, housed under large tents. By January 1864, the last patients were gone as were the surgeons, guards, nurses, tents and cookhouses. Only a temporary cemetery on the hillside remained as a testament to the courageous battle to save lives that took place at Camp Letterman.
Author : Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684512794
Total Pages : 967 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals written by Samuel W. Mitcham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renown military historian and frequent television commenter brings to life the generalship of the South during the Civil War in sparkling, information-filled vignettes. For both the Civil War completist and the general reader! Anyone acquainted with the American Civil War will readily recognize the names of the Confederacy’s most prominent generals. Robert E. Lee. Stonewall Jackson. James Longstreet. These men have long been lionized as fearless commanders and genius tacticians. Yet few have heard of the hundreds of generals who led under and alongside them. Men whose battlefield resolve spurred the Confederacy through four years of the bloodiest combat Americans have ever faced. In The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals, veteran Civil War historian, Samuel W. Mitcham, documents the lives of every Confederate general from birth to death, highlighting their unique contributions to the battlefield and bringing their personal triumphs and tragedies to life. Packed with photos and historical briefings, The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals belongs on the shelf of every Civil War historian, and preserves in words the legacies once carved in stone.
Author : Mark Grimsley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803270770
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Gettysburg written by Mark Grimsley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by scholars who have walked the battlegrounds, consulted with local experts and park guides, and studied the testimony left behind by the participants, this guide is the ultimate guide to Gettysburg. 57 maps, figures & photos.
Author : Jay Luvaas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guide to the Battle of Gettysburg written by Jay Luvaas and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here in one compact volume is a day-by-day and hour-by-hour account of one of the bloodiest and most momentous battles in history. The Battle of Gettysburg--fought on July 1, 2, and 3, 1863--changed the course of an epic war. Unlike other volumes on Gettysburg, this guide provides a unique blend of documentary sources and terrain descriptions with 25 stops arranged in the order of the actual battle as it unfolded. It combines official reports and observations of the commanding officers in their own words to recreate one of the pivotal encounters of the Civil War.
Author : J. David Petruzzi
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1611210798
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook written by J. David Petruzzi and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook is an informative full-color guide for American Civil War and Gettysburg enthusiasts of all ages. Authors J. David Petruzzi and Steven Stanley use clear and concise writing broken down into short and easy to understand chapters complete with original maps, modern and historic photographs, tables, charts, and artwork to narrate the history of the Gettysburg Campaign from the opening battle at Brandy Station in Virginia on June 9, 1863, to the escape of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River on July 14, 1863. Chapters include quotes of interest from participants, tables and charts of the ages and seniority ranking of the generals of both sides; weather observations during the battle; a stunning photographic study of the entire campaign; a discussion of the battle’s myths and controversies; biographies of select officers, civilians, and battlefield photographers; trivia about the campaign; a comprehensive order of battle; a suggested reading list and websites; and much more. As enjoyable to look at as it is easy to use, every casual and serious student of the Civil War and Gettysburg will want a copy of The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook as a constant companion while reading other books on the campaign—and even as a supplement and general field guide while walking the hallowed Pennsylvania ground. About the Authors: J. David Petruzzi is an award-winning Civil War cavalry historian. He is the author of many articles for a wide variety of publications, and has written or co-authored several books including: (with Eric Wittenberg) Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg (Savas Beatie, 2006); (with Wittenberg and Michael F. Nugent) One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863 (Savas Beatie, 2008); and (with Steven Stanley) The Complete Gettysburg Guide: Walking and Driving Tours of the Battlefield, Town, Cemeteries, Field Hospital Sites, and other Topics of Historical Interest (Savas Beatie, 2009), winner of the U.S. Army Historical Foundation’s 2009 Distinguished Writing Award, Reference Category. With Stanley, he also produced The Complete Gettysburg Guide: Audio Driving and Walking Tour, Volume One: The Battlefield (Savas Beatie, 2010). Steven Stanley lives in Gettysburg and is a graphic artist specializing in historical map design and battlefield photography. His maps, considered among the best in historical cartography, have been a longtime staple of the Civil War Trust and have helped raise millions of dollars for the Trust through their preservation appeals and interpretation projects. Steve’s maps have appeared in a wide variety of publications. Co-authored by J. David Petruzzi, Steve produced the maps and the complete design of The Complete Gettysburg Guide: Walking and Driving Tours of the Battlefield, Town, Cemeteries, Field Hospital Sites, and other Topics of Historical Interest (Savas Beatie, 2009), the winner of the U.S. Army Historical Foundation’s 2009 Distinguished Writing Award, Reference Category, as well as The Complete Gettysburg Guide: Audio Driving and Walking Tour, Volume One: The Battlefield (Savas Beatie, 2010).
Author : Richard Rollins
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811732352
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Pickett's Charge written by Richard Rollins and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 firsthand accounts of the American Civil War, many of them long forgotten and previously unpublished Includes accounts from Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Meade, and Hancock Maps pinpoint each writer's location on the battlefield At Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, Confederate soldiers launched one of history's most famous infantry assaults: Pickett's Charge. Using the participants' own words, Richard Rollins deftly reconstructs that momentous event. Separate sections cover planning and preparation; the preliminary artillery barrage; the charges of Pickett's, Pettigrew's, and Trimble's Divisions; and defensive actions up and down the Federal line. From the generals who devised the assault to the lower-level officers and men who bravely walked through shell and shot, Rollins offers a comprehensive, panoramic view of the charge.
Author : Larry Tagg
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306812428
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Generals Of Gettysburg written by Larry Tagg and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents detailed information on the character and personality of all 133 combat-command officers at the battle of Gettsyburg, as well as an in-depth account of each man's actions on the field.
Author : Leonard Fullenkamp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Guide to the Vicksburg Campaign written by Leonard Fullenkamp and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the same week that Union forces triumphed at Gettysburg, they also captured the river fortress at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Although much less memorialized than Gettysburg, the fall of Vicksburg was every bit as crucial to the Union cause. Pitting Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman against John Pemberton and Joseph Johnston, the victorious Vicksburg Campaign helped revive a war-weary North, gave it absolute control of the Mississippi River, severed the western Confederacy from the East, and further constricted the South's ability to wage war as the Union drove ever deeper into its heartland. It also gave Grant-the campaign's chief architect-a dramatic venue for demonstrating his maturing skills and intelligence as a strategist and field commander. Unlike other volumes in the U.S. Army War College Guides to Civil War Battles series, this one examines an entire campaign, looking at many interlinked battles and joint Army-Navy operations as they played out over seven months and thousands of square miles of rivers, streams, swamps, lakes, forests, hills, and plains surrounding Vicksburg. In addition to detailed coverage of the actual Siege of Vicksburg, the book also chronicles the battles at Jackson, Port Gibson, Raymond, Champions Hill, and Big Black Ridge. Like the other volumes in the series, this one combines eyewitness accounts with maps, illustrations, and tour directions to illuminate the events for both tourists and arm-chair travellers. For anyone interested in learning more about this relatively neglected but pivotal Civil War campaign, the Guide to the Vicksburg Campaign is must reading.
Author : James A. Hessler
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611212014
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg written by James A. Hessler and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A battlefield guide to the sites and history of the climactic attack during the American Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg. 150 years after the event, the grand near-suicidal attack against the Union position on Cemetery Ridge still emotionally resonates with Gettysburg enthusiasts like no other aspect of the battle. On the afternoon of July 3, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee ordered more than 12,000 Southern infantry to undertake what would become the most legendary charge in American military history. This attack, popularly but inaccurately known as “Pickett’s Charge,” is often considered the turning point of the Civil War’s seminal battle of Gettysburg. Although much has been written about the battle itself and Pickett’s Charge in particular, Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg is the first battlefield guide for this celebrated assault. After the war, one staff officer perceptively observed that the charge “has been more criticized, and is still less understood, than any other act of the Gettysburg drama.” Unfortunately, what was true then remains true to this day. The authors of this book—two of Gettysburg’s elite Licensed Battlefield Guides along with one of the Civil War’s leading cartographers—have corrected that oversight. Grounded in the premise that no better resource exists for understanding this unique event than the battlefield itself, Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg encourages its readers to explore this storied event from a wide variety of perspectives. For the first time, readers can march toward the Copse of Trees with Armistead’s Virginians, advance on the Confederate left with Pettigrew’s North Carolinians, or defend the Angle with Alonzo Cushing’s gunners and thousands of Union soldiers. There is much here to enrich the experience, including dozens of full-color original maps, scores of battlefield and other historic photographs, a unique mix of rare human interest stories, a discussion of leadership controversies, and a rare collection of artifacts directly related to the charge. Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg is designed for readers to enjoy on or off the battlefield, and will give Civil War enthusiasts an entirely new appreciation for, and understanding of, Gettysburg’s third day of battle. “Extremely well done . . . designed as a tour guide to the area of the battlefield where the famous July 3 1863 Confederate assault on the center of the Union Line took place...the heart of any tour guide is maps, and that feature is served up in exemplary fashion here . . . far more than just maps. The two text authors are battlefield guides and the detail provided is immense . . . strongly recommended.” —Civil War News
Author : Mark Adkin
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gettysburg Companion written by Mark Adkin and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an extensive documentation of the most infamous chapter of the American Civil War, this magisterial resource has been acclaimed as the most comprehensive and definitive work on the battle of Gettysburg. After a prologue describing the Union defeat at Chancellorsville and the death of the Confederates' greatest general, "Stonewall" Jackson, this essential guide continues with the orders of battle--detailing diagrammatic form, unit strengths, commanders down to regimental and battery level, and casualties for all of the units engaged. From detailing the military and political command and control on both sides, the campaign leading up to the battle, the actual engagement, and decisive "highlights" such as the defense of Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge, this remarkable resource is a superbly illustrated and well-researched presentation that will engage and inform those intrigued by one of the most pivotal and revolutionary events in American history.
Author : Scott L. Mingus
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1611211301
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Confederate General William "Extra Billy" Smith written by Scott L. Mingus and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning biography of one of the Confederacy’s most colorful and controversial generals. Winner of the 2013 Nathan Bedford Forrest History Book Award for Southern History Nominated for the 2014 Virginia Book Award for Nonfiction Despite a life full of drama, politics, and adventure, little has been written about William “Extra Billy” Smith—aside from a rather biased account by his brother-in-law back in the nineteenth century. As the oldest and one of the most controversial Confederate generals on the field at Gettysburg, Smith was also one of the most charismatic characters of the Civil War and the antebellum Old South. Known nationally as “Extra Billy” because of his prewar penchant for finding loopholes in government postal contracts to gain extra money for his stagecoach lines, Smith served as Virginia’s governor during both the war with Mexico and the Civil War; served five terms in the US Congress; and was one of Virginia’s leading spokesmen for slavery and states’ rights. Extra Billy’s extra-long speeches and wry sense of humor were legendary among his peers. A lawyer during the heady Gold Rush days, he made a fortune in California—and, as with his income earned from stagecoaches, quickly lost it. Despite his advanced age, Smith took to the field and fought well at First Manassas, was wounded at Seven Pines and again at Sharpsburg, and marched with Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania. There, on the first day at Gettysburg, Smith’s frantic messages about a possible Union flanking attack remain a matter of controversy to this day. Did his aging eyes see distant fence-lines that he interpreted as approaching enemy soldiers—mere phantoms of his imagination? Or did his prompt action stave off a looming Confederate disaster? This biography draws upon a wide array of newspapers, diaries, letters, and other firsthand accounts to paint a portrait of one of the South’s most interesting leaders, complete with original maps and photos.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Gettysburg National Military Park, General Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Orrison
Publisher : Emerging Civil War
ISBN 13 : 9781611212433
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (124 download)
Download or read book The Last Road North written by Robert Orrison and published by Emerging Civil War. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader to sites associated with the Gettysburg Campaign by providing a stop-by-stop tour based on the Civil War Trails system.
