| Gettysburg Lectures Revised Edition Contributor(s): Boritt, Gabor S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0195129067 ISBN-13: 9780195129069 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1999 Annotation: Leading authorities shed new light on the greatest battle in American history, focusing in particular on the unknown, the controversial, and what might have been. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
| Dewey: 973.734 |
| Lexile Measure: 1400 |
| Series: Gettysburg Lectures |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.28" W x 8.06" (0.77 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 when General Winfield Scott Hancock ordered the First Minnesota to take those colors, sending the Minnesotans into a struggle that would cost most of them their lives but would help save the day for the Union. Offering the insights of America's eminent Civil War scholars, The Gettysburg Nobody Knows provides a marvelously informative reconsideration of this epic event. |