Barksdale's charge [electronic resource] : the true high tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 / Phillip Thomas Tucker, Ph.D.

Though long overshadowed by the more famous Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble Charge of July 3, the advance of Barksdale's men from Seminary Ridge, through the Peach Orchard, and across Plum Run toward Cemetery Ridge has been referred to as "the grandest charge ever seen by mortal man." Here for the first t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tucker, Phillip Thomas, 1953- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Casemate, 2013.
Subjects:	Barksdale, William, > 1821-1863. Confederate States of America. > Army. > Barksdale's Brigade. Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
Online Access:	ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2013 (Ebook Central @ Proquest) EBSCO eBooks: 2013 (EBSCO) eBook High School Collection (EBSCOhost): 2013 (EBSCO) eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2013 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Barksdale's Charge: The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

"We have never been whipped and we never can be!"
"To lay my life on the altar of my country"
"We are going into Yankey land"
"Exceedingly impatient for the order to advance"
"The grandest charge ever seen by mortal man!"
"We want those guns!"
"The guiding spirit of the battle"
"On to Cemetery Ridge!"
"It seemed as if nothing could live an instant"
Death in the gloaming
"Great God! Have we got the universe to whip?"
When glory was out of date".