Pickett's Charge Eyewitness Accounts at the Battle of Gettysburg, 2021 Edition

Pickett's Charge: Eyewitness Accounts at the Battle of Gettysburg, 2021 Edition by Richard Rollins
English | August 15, 2021 | ISBN: 0811739449 | 432 pages | PDF (Converted) | 4.51 Mb
At Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, Confederate soldiers launched one of history's most famous infantry assaults: Pickett's Charge. Using the participants' own words, Richard Rollins deftly reconstructs that momentous event. Separate sections cover planning and preparation; the preliminary artillery barrage; the charges of Pickett's, Pettigrew's, and Trimble's Divisions; and defensive actions up and down the Federal line. From the generals who devised the assault to the lower-level officers and men who bravely walked through shell and shot, Rollins offers a comprehensive, panoramic view of the charge, with more than 150 firsthand accounts-including accounts from Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Meade, and Hancock-many of them long forgotten and previously unpublished.