Pickett's charge [[electronic resource] ] : the last attack at Gettysburg / / Earl J. Hess

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788219003321
• Autore: Hess Earl J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2001
• ISBN: 0-8078-9839-2; 1-4696-0300-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (518 p.)
• Collana: Civil War America
• Disciplina: 973.7/349
• Soggetti: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
• 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 (p. 459-482) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Preface, xiii -- Chapter 1. The Last Attack at Gettysburg, 1 -- Chapter 2. The Attackers, 36 -- Chapter 3. The Defenders, 82 -- Chapter 4. The Bombardment, 125 -- Chapter 5. To Emmitsburg Road, 166 -- Chapter 6. To the Stone Fence, 201 --Chapter 7. High Tide, 248 -- Chapter 8. The Repulse, 296 -- Chapter 9. Glory Enough, 341 -- Epilogue: Making Sense of Pickett's Charge, 385 -- Order of Battle, 405 --Notes, 409 -- Bibliography, 459 --Index,483.
• Sommario/riassunto: Pickett's Charge is probably the best-known military engagement of the Civil War, widely regarded as the defining moment of the battle of Gettysburg and celebrated as the high-water mark of the Confederacy. But as this book notes, the epic stature of Pickett's Charge has grown at the expense of reality, and the facts of the attack have been obscured or distorted by the legend that surrounds them. The book aims to sweep away the accumulated myths about Pickett's Charge.