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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787324403321

Autore

Tucker Phillip Thomas <1953->

Titolo

Barksdale's charge : the true high tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 / / Phillip Thomas Tucker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Casemate, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-61200-180-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (536 p.)

Disciplina

973.7349

Soggetti

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Gettysburg

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1: “We have never been whipped and we never can be!�""; ""2: “To lay my life on the altar of my country�""; ""3: “We are going into Yankey land �""; ""4: “Exceedingly impatient for the order to advance �""; ""5: “The grandest charge ever seen by mortal man!�""; ""6: “We want those guns!�""; ""7: “The guiding spirit of the battle�""; ""8: “On to Cemetery Ridge!�""; ""9: “It seemed as if nothing could live an instant�""; ""10: Death in the Gloaming""

""11: “Great God! Have we got the universe to whip?�""""12: When Glory Was Out of Date""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

On the third day of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee launched a magnificent attack. For pure pageantry it was unsurpassed, and it also marked the centerpiece of the war, both time-wise and in terms of how the conflict had turned a corner-from persistent Confederate hopes to impending Rebel despair. But Pickett's Charge was crushed by the Union defenders that day, having never had a chance in the first place.The Confederacy's real ""high tide"" at Gettysburg had come the afternoon before, during the swirling conflagration when Longstreet's corps first entered the battle, when the Federals just barely