Through such scrutiny the cornerstone battle of the Civil War is given extraordinarily vivid new life. What emerges is a previously untold story: from the personal politics roiling the Union and Confederate officer ranks, to the peculiar character of artillery units. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights and sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the stone walls and gunpowder clouds of Pickett's Charge the reason that the Army of Northern Virginia could be smelled before it could be seen the march of thousands of men from the banks of the Rappahannock in Virginia to the Pennsylvania hills. Though the Battle of Gettysburg has been written about at length and thoroughly dissected in terms of strategic importance, never before has a book dived down so closely to the individual soldier to explore the experience of the three days of intense fighting for the people involved, or looked so closely at the way politics swayed military decisions, or placed the battle in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa.From the acclaimed Civil War historian, and coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the legendary battle: a brilliant new history-the most intimate and richly readable account we have had-that draws the reader into the muck and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts, as never before, the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced one of the great battles of all time. Search for related items by subject Subject: The general plan of attack is unchanged - Are you going to do your duty today? - The shadow of a cloud across a sunny field - As clear a defeat as our army ever met with - There is bad faith somewhere - To sweep and plunder the battle grounds. One of the bigger bubbles of the scum - You are to hold this ground at all costs - I have never been in a hotter place - The supreme moment of the war had come - Remember Harper's Ferry - We are the Louisiana Tigers! - Let us have no more retreats - Part 4. The devil's to pay - You stand alone, between the Rebel Army and your homes! - The dutch run and leave us to fight - Go in, South Carolina - If the enemy is there to-morrow, we must attack him - Part 3.

People who will not give in - There were never such men in an army before - This campaign is going to end this show - A perfectly surplus body of men - Victory will inevitably attend out arms - A goggle-eyed old snapping turtle - A universal panic prevails - You will have to fight like the devil to hold your own - Part 2. Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-599) and index. 'This is a Borzoi book'-Title page verso.

Gettysburg by Allen C. Guelzo