Roads From Gettysburg

Author : John W. Schildt
Publisher : White Mane Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roads from Gettysburg written by John W. Schildt and published by White Mane Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wealth of firsthand accounts in this work make it a worthwhile volume for both serious students of the Gettysburg Campaign and those that just like to read about the Civil War.

Author : John W. Schildt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870122958
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roads to Gettysburg written by John W. Schildt and published by . This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Huntington
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811767728
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maine Roads to Gettysburg written by Tom Huntington and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Searching for George Gordon Meade, a study of how troops from Maine aided the Union Army’s victory at the Battle of Gettysburg. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and his 20th Maine regiment made a legendary stand on Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. But Maine’s role in the battle includes much more than that. Soldiers from the Pine Tree State contributed mightily during the three days of fighting. Pious general Oliver Otis Howard secured the high ground of Cemetery Ridge for the Union on the first day. Adelbert Ames—the stern taskmaster who had transformed the 20th Maine into a fighting regiment—commanded a brigade and then a division at Gettysburg. The 17th Maine fought ably in the confused and bloody action in the Wheatfield; a sea captain turned artilleryman named Freeman McGilvery cobbled together a defensive line that proved decisive on July 2; and the 19th Maine helped stop Pickett’s Charge during the battle’s climax. Maine soldiers had fought and died for two bloody years even before they reached Gettysburg. They had fallen on battlefields in Virginia and Maryland. They had died in front of Richmond, in the Shenandoah Valley, on the bloody fields of Antietam, in the Slaughter Pen at Fredericksburg, and in the tangled Wilderness around Chancellorsville. And the survivors kept fighting, even as they followed Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania. In Maine Roads to Gettysburg, author Tom Huntington tells their stories. Praise for Searching for George Gordon Meade “An engrossing narrative that the reader can scarcely put down.” —Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson “Unique and irresistible.” —Lincoln Prize-winning historian Harold Holzer

Author : Bradley M. Gottfried
Publisher : White Mane Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roads to Gettysburg written by Bradley M. Gottfried and published by White Mane Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Murphy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395559659
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Road to Gettysburg written by Jim Murphy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the events of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 as seen through the eyes of two actual participants, nineteen-year-old Confederate lieutenant John Dooley and seventeen-year-old Union soldier Thomas Galway. Also discusses Lincoln's famous speech delivered at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.

Author : Troy D. Harman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811770656
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Roads Led to Gettysburg written by Troy D. Harman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been a trope of Civil War history that Gettysburg was an accidental battlefield. General Lee, the old story goes, marched blindly into Pennsylvania while his chief cavalryman Jeb Stuart rode and raided incommunicado. Meanwhile, General Meade, in command only a few days, gave uncertain chase to an enemy whose exact positions he did not know. And so these ignorant armies clashed by first light at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863. In the spirit of his iconoclastic Lee’s Real Plan at Gettysburg, Troy D. Harman argues for a new interpretation: once Lee invaded Pennsylvania and the Union army pursued, a battle at Gettysburg was entirely predictable, perhaps inevitable. Most Civil War battles took place along major roads, railroads, and waterways; the armies needed to move men and equipment, and they needed water for men, horses, and artillery. And yet this perspective hasn’t been fully explored when it comes to Gettysburg. Look at an 1863 map, says Harman: look at the area framed in the north by the Susquehanna River and in the south by the Potomac, in the east by the Northern Central Railroad and in the west by the Cumberland Valley Railroad. This is where the armies played a high-stakes game of chess in late June 1863. Their movements were guided by strategies of caution and constrained by roads, railroads, mountains and mountain passes, rivers and creeks, all of which led the armies to Gettysburg. It’s true that Lee was disadvantaged by Stuart’s roaming and Meade by his newness to command, which led both to default to the old strategic and logistical bedrocks they learned at West Point—and these instincts helped reinforce the magnetic pull toward Gettysburg. Moreover, once the battle started, Harman argues, the blue and gray fought tactically for the two creeks—Marsh and Rock, essential for watering men and horses and sponging artillery—that mark the battlefield in the east and the west as well as for the roadways that led to Gettysburg from all points of the compass. This is a perspective often overlooked in many accounts of the battle, which focus on the high ground—the Round Tops, Cemetery Hill—as key tactical objectives. Gettysburg Ranger and historian Troy Harman draws on a lifetime of researching the Civil War and more than thirty years of studying the terrain of Gettysburg and south-central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland to reframe the story of the Battle of Gettysburg. In the process he shows there’s still much to say about one of history’s most written-about battles. This is revisionism of the best kind.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improvement of Roads in Gettysburg National Park. written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bradley M. Gottfried
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611210259
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maps of Gettysburg written by Bradley M. Gottfried and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive collection of Civil War maps and battle plans that brought Union and Confederate forces to the largest battle ever fought on American soil. Thousands of books and articles have been written about Gettysburg—but the military operation itself remains one of the most complex and difficult to understand. Here, Bradley M. Gottfried gives readers a unique and thorough study of the campaign that decided the fate of a nation. Enriched with 144 detailed, full-page color maps comprising the entire campaign, The Maps of Gettysburg shows the action as it happened—down to the regimental and battery level, including the marches to and from the battlefield, and virtually every significant event in-between. Paired with each map is a fully detailed text describing the units, personalities, movements, and combat it depicts—including quotes from eyewitnesses—all of which bring the Gettysburg story to life. Perfect for the armchair historian or first-hand visitor to the hallowed ground, “no academic library can afford not to include The Maps of Gettysburg as part of their American Civil War Reference collections” (Midwest Book Review).

Author : Chris Bagley
Publisher : Gettysburg Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1734627638
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horse at Gettysburg written by Chris Bagley and published by Gettysburg Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horses are one of the many unsung heroes of the American Civil War. These majestic animals were impressed into service, trained, prepared for battle, and turned into expendable implements of war. There is more to this story, however. When an army’s means and survival is predicated upon an animal whose instincts are to flee rather than fight, a bond of mutual trust and respect between handler and horse must be forged. Ultimately, the Battle of Gettysburg resulted in thousands of horses killed and wounded. Their story deserves telling, from a time not so far removed.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Roads in National Park at Gettysburg, Pa. April 20, 1916. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: