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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Third day at Gettysburg & beyond. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1994 (OCoLC)624468249 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gary W Gallagher |
| ISBN: | 0807821551 9780807821558 0807844659 9780807844656 |
| OCLC Number: | 29703465 |
| Description: | x, 217 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Lee's army has not lost any of its prestige : the impact of Gettysburg on the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate home front / Garry W. Gallagher -- Cross purposes : Longstreet, Lee, and Confederate attack plans for July 3 at Gettysburg / William Garrett Piston -- Pickett's charge : the convergence of history and myth in the Southern past / Carol Reardon -- Armistead and Garnett : the parallel lives of two Virginia soldiers / Robert K. Krick -- Fredericksburg on the other leg : Sergeant Ben Hirst's narrative of important events, Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 -- From Gettysburg to falling waters : Meade's pursuit of Lee / A. Wilson Greene. |
| Series Title: | Military campaigns of the Civil War. |
| Other Titles: | Third day at Gettysburg and beyond. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Gary W. Gallagher. |
Abstract:
The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond brings current research and interpretation to bear on a range of pivotal issues surrounding the final day of the battle, July 3, 1863. This revisionist approach begins by expanding our knowledge of the engagement itself: individual essays address Confederate general James Longstreet's role in Pickett's Charge and Union general George Meade's failure to pursue Lee after the fighting. Other essays widen the scope of investigation to look at contemporary reactions to the Confederate defeat across the South, the construction of narratives by the participants themselves - from Confederate survivors of Pickett's assault to Union sergeant Ben Hirst - and the reverberations of Pickett's final momentous charge. Combining fresh evidence with the reinterpretation of standard sources, these essays refocus our view of the third day at Gettysburg to take in its diverse stories of combat and memory.
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