Gettysburg Nobody Knows

Name: Gettysburg Nobody Knows
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ISBN: 9780195129069

ISBN-10: 0195129067

ISBN-13: 9780195129069

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Authors: Gabor S. Boritt

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Gabor Boritt has invited nine leading authorities to shed new light on the greatest battle in our history, focusing in particular on the unknown, the controversial, and what might have been. What did the battle do to the people of Gettysburg? What is behind the rise of Joshua Chamberlain to the status of the Hero of the Battle? How did the common soldiers influence the battle? Readers are treated to a fresh account of Pickett's Charge from the rarely-described perspective of the Union soldiers, and to careful new analyses of the battlefield actions of General Ewell and General Daniel Sickles. And throughout the volume, there is much vivid writing, such as a stirring account of the moment…

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List price: $19.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Introduction



The Common Soldier's Gettysburg Campaign



Joshua Chamberlain and the American Dream



Old Jack Is Not Here



The Chances of War: Lee, Longstreet, Sickles, and the First Minnesota Volunteers



Eggs, Aldie, Shepherdstown, and J. E. B. Stuart



""""'I Think the Union Army Had Something to Do with It""""; the Pickett's Charge Nobody Knows



Gettysburg's Gettysburg: What the Battle Did to the Borough



The Pennsylvania Gambit and the Gettysburg Splash



From Turning Point to Peace Memorial: a Cultural Legacy


Notes


For Further Reading: A Bibliography


Contributors