Gettysburg : the last invasion /

Gettysburg : the last invasion /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Guelzo, Allen C.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Description:	xix, 632 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Confederate States of America. -- Army of Northern Virginia. Confederate States of America. -- Army. -- Pickett's Division. American Civil War (1861-1865) Gettysburg, Battle of (Pennsylvania : 1863) Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg. United States. History. Personal narratives.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9129773

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ISBN:	9780307594082 0307594084
Notes:	"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-599) and index.
Summary:	From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a new history--the most intimate and richly readable account we have had--of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced one of the greatest battles in human history. No previous book on Gettysburg dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice.--From publisher description.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part 1. The March Up
Chapter 1. People who will not give in
Chapter 2. There were never such men in an army before
Chapter 3. This Campaign is going to end this show
Chapter 4. A perfectly surplus body of men
Chapter 5. Victory will inevitably attend our arms
Chapter 6. A goggle-eyed old snapping turtle
Chapter 7. A universal panic prevails
Chapter 8. You will have to fight like the devil to hold your own
Part 2. The First Day
Chapter 9. The devil's to pay
Chapter 10. You stand alone, between the Rebel Army and your homes!
Chapter 11. The dutch run and leave us to fight
Chapter 12. Go in, South Carolina!
Chapter 13. If the enemy is there to-morrow, we must attack him
Part 3. The Second Day
Chapter 14. One of the bigger bubbles of the scum
Chapter 15. You are to hold this ground at all costs
Chapter 16. I have never been in a hotter place
Chapter 17. The supreme moment of the war had come
Chapter 18. Remember Harper's Ferry!
Chapter 19. We are the Louisiana Tigers!
Chapter 20. Let us have no more retreats
Part 4. The Third Day
Chapter 21. The general plan of attack was unchanged
Chapter 22. Are you going to do your duty today?
Chapter 23. The shadow of a cloud across a sunny field
Chapter 24. As clear a defeat as our army ever met with
Chapter 25. There is bad faith somewhere
Chapter 26. To Sweep & plunder the battle grounds
Epilogue
Notes
Index