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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967989503321

Autore

Spruill Matt

Titolo

Decisions at Gettysburg : the nineteen critical decisions that defined the campaign / / Matt Spruill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2011

ISBN

9786613098597

9781621902850

1621902854

9781283098595

1283098598

9781572337886

1572337885

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/349

Soggetti

Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863

Command of troops

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

Before the battle -- Wednesday, July 1, 1863 -- Thursday, July 2, 1863 -- Friday, July 3, 1863, and afterward.

Sommario/riassunto

The Campaign and Battle of Gettysburg have inspired scrutiny from virtually every angle. Standing out amid the voluminous scholarship, this book is not merely one more narrative history of the events that transpired before, during, and after those three momentous July days in southern Pennsylvania. Rather, it focuses on and analyzes nineteen critical decisions by Union and Confederate commanders that determined the particular ways in which those events unfolded. Matt Spruill, a retired U.S. Army colonel who studied and taught at the U. S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylva