Into the Fight: Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg

by John Michael Priest

Overview

Challenging conventional views, stretching the minds of Civil War enthusiasts and scholars as only John Michael Priest can, Into the Fight is both a scholarly and a revisionist interpretation of the most famous charge in American history. Using a wide array of sources, ranging from the monuments on the Gettysburg battlefield to the accounts of the participants themselves, Priest here rewrites the conventional thinking about this unusually emotional, yet serious, moment in our Civil War. Starting with a fresh point of view, and with no axes to grind, Into the Fight challenges all interested in that stunning moment in history to rethink their assumptions.
Worthwhile for its use of soldiers’ accounts, valuable for its forcing the reader to rethink the common assumptions about the charge, critics may disagree with this research, but they cannot ignore it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781940669502
Publisher:	Savas Publishing
Publication date:	06/11/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	292
Sales rank:	323,138
File size:	31 MB
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Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	vi
	List of Maps	viii
	Acknowledgements	x
Chapter 1	Predawn through 1:00 p.m.	1
Chapter 2	1:00 p.m. through 2:00 p.m.	51
Chapter 3	2:00 p.m. through 2:45 p.m.	86
Chapter 4	2:45 p.m. through 3:00 p.m.	111
Chapter 5	3:00 p.m. through 5:00 p.m.	159
Appendix A	The Confederate Artillery Placement	181
Appendix B	The Confederate Infantry Strengths and Casualties	199
	Notes	200
	Bibliography	254
	Index	264

Editorial Reviews

Using a wide range of sources<-->from the monuments on the Gettysburg battlefield to accounts of the participants,<-->the author rewrites the conventional thinking about the most famous charge of the Civil War. Each chapter reconstructs a piece of the timeline on July 3rd, 1863 and includes maps of artillery and infantry positions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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