This book covers a critical part of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett's Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military action of the Civil War.
19. J. H. Moore, “Longstreet's Assault,” Philadelphia Weekly Times, November 4, 1882; reprinted as “Heth's Division at Gettysburg.” Southern Bivouac (May 1885): 383-95, and as “The Battle of Gettysburg,” in John Berrien Lindsley, ...
But they were caught in a bad fix because of the “very great obstacles,” in the words of Major John Corbett Timberlake, speaking of the fences. A New Kent County farmer, Corporal Benjamin N. Timberlake, age 28 of Company E (Pamunkey ...
A. S. Van de Graaf of the 5th Alabama Battalion clearly state that there was a farm lane beyond the Emmitsburg Road. Seville, First Regiment, Delaware Vols., 81–82. J. H. Moore, “Heth's Division at Gettysburg,” The Southern Bivouac ...
... Sumter Artillery Battalion Major John Lane33 Company A (GA) Captain Hugh M. Ross one 12-pounder Howitzer, one Napoleon, ... and three Napoleons Virginia Battery (VA) 1st Lieutenant Addison W. Utterback 37 two 12-pounder Howitzers, ...
Reardon shows that the story told today of Pickett's Charge is really an amalgam of history and memory. The evolution of that mix, she concludes, tells us much about how we come to understand our nation's past.
"This book celebrates Pickett's Charge, Mark Bradford's monumental commission for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, an epic site-specific work inspired by Paul Dominique Philippoteaux' nineteenth century cyclorama at Gettysburg ...
In Pickett's Charge: The Untold Story, author Bruce Mowday explores the story of what the heroic Union soldiers, led by General Alexander Webb, had to endure during this assault by Southern forces, a story that deserves recognition and has ...
Since July 1863, survivors, historians and Civil War enthusiasts have debated, written about and dissected Robert E. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg. Myriad controversies concerning the conduct of the campaign and...
Lieutenant Mitchell Shreve leads a platoon of Tennesseans as they escort a family across Pennsylvania to Gettysburg.