Pickett's
Charge--The Last Attack at Gettysburg by Earl J. Hess
Hardcover: 497 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.36 x
9.53 x 6.45
Univ of North Carolina Pr; ISBN: 0807826480; (November
5, 2001)
Nine
Months to Gettysburg: Stannard's Vermonters and the Repulse of Pickett's
Charge by Howard Coffin, Edwin C. Bearss
Book Description: The compelling story of the Second Vermont
Brigade and its vital role at Gettysburg (more than any other brigade they
determined the fate of the battle) fills a significant gap in the history
of America's Civil War. "A Vermont brigade held the key position at Gettysburg
and did more than any other body of men to gain the triumph which decided
the fate of the Union," the New York Times reported soon after the historic
battle over the Fourth of July, 1863. The citizen soldiers of General George
J. Stannard's Second Vermont Brigade, only a few days short of their nine-month
enlistments, occupied a sector of Cemetery Ridge, helped stabilize the
line, and then shattered the right flank of Pickett's famous charge just
when the outcome of the battle hung in the balance. In this unique eye-witness
account, Coffin draws on scores of soldiers' letters to relate how and
why young recruits from isolated hill farms flocked to the Union colors
in response to Lincoln's call in 1862. During the nine months leading up
to their rendezvous with destiny at Gettysburg, they recorded, in humorous
detail, foraging for food, and, in more sober terms, enduring homesickness,
monotony, and often fatal diseases. We share, too, their anxieties as they
are thrust suddenly into the most important infantry maneuver directed
against the Confederate assault.
Hardcover: 314 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.98 x
10.23 x 7.23
Publisher: Countryman Pr; ; 1st edition (November 1997)
ISBN: 0881504009
