The battle of Gettysburg ; a comprehensive narrative / by Jesse Bowman Young, and officer in the campaign; with maps, plans and illustration.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper,
1913.
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| Physical Description: | ix, 462 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Preliminary survey. Motives leading up to the campaign
- Pivotal issues decided
- Pennsylvania officers in the foreground
- The empire state in the battle
- A flash-light view of the campaign
- Some preliminary steps
- The narrative of the battle. Joseph Hooker, a commanding figure
- The Union Army crosses into Maryland
- J.E.B. Stuart's raid
- Hooker displaced : Meade appointed
- The Pipe Creek line
- A scout brings news to Lee
- Lee concentrates his forces
- Location of the armies on the eve of battle
- Buford uncovers the advancing Confederates
- Buford keeps the troops of Hill at bay
- Strength of the opposing armies
- Reynolds crowns his career
- Doubleday's fight with Hill
- Howard in command
- Ewell's "lost opportunity"
- Hancock studies the situation
- Meade on the field
- Both leaders feeling their way
- Sickles unmasks Longstreet's movement
- Meade commands in battle
- The safeguarding of Little Round Top
- "Attack up the Emmitsburg Road"
- Defending Sickle's line
- The echelon assaults break down
- The attack on Cemetery Hill
- Assaults on Culp's Hill
- Slocum recaptures Culp's Hill
- Union Cavalry on the flanks
- Silence : then a thousand thunderbolts
- Cui bono?
- The charging force makes ready
- Hancock's line in view
- The leaders in the movement
- Then cometh the end
- The aftermath
- The opposing armies : en masse and in detail. West Point at Gettysburg
- Roster of the Army of the Potomac
- Roster of the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg
- The several states at Gettysburg as represented in the three arms of the service
- Itinerary of the Army of the Potomac, June 25 to July 2, 1863.