Research Catalog
- Title
- Gettysburg, day three / Jeffrey D. Wert.
- Author
- Wert, Jeffry D.
- Publication
- New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001.
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Text | Request in advance | E475.53 .W5 2001 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM
- Description
- 448 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Gettysburg, Day Three draws on hundreds of sources, including more than 400 manuscript collections, to provide a comprehensive account of the crucial day of the Civil War's greatest battle. Brief excerpts from letters and diaries of soldiers on both sides bring to life the voices of the men who fought this terrible battle."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue; to a crossroad -- Night on the battlefield -- Lee and Meade -- "The whole hillside seemed enveloped in a blaze" -- "None but demons can delight in war" -- "No fifteen thousand men" -- "We were on the eve of something desperate" -- "They are determined to do or die" -- "Bloodthirsty business" -- "The air seethed with old iron" -- "Like feathers before the wind" -- Into the "vortex of death" -- "Come on, come on: come to death" -- "It is my fault" -- "It was kill all you can" -- Epilogue: "this place called Gettysburg" -- Appendix: Order of battle.
- ISBN
- 0684859149
- LCCN
- ^^2001031071
- OCLC
- 46732265
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library