Research Catalog

Title

Summer thunder : a battlefield guide to the artillery at Gettysburg / Matt Spruill.

Author

Spruill, Matt

Publication

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2010.

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Details

Description

xxi, 338 p. : ill., maps, plans; 23 cm.

Summary

"A terrific resource for visitors to the national military park, it explores the clashing armies' deployment of artillery throughout the engagement between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia -- from one position to another, from one day to the next. Combining the author's own commentary with excerpts from the Official Records and other primary sources, author Matt Spruill takes readers to every point where artillery was used and reveals the tactical thinking of both Union and Confederate commanders. Spruill uses a sequential series of thirty-five "stops", complete with driving instructions and recent photographs, to guide readers around the part and orient them about where the opposing units were placed and what happened there. Detailed maps depict the battlefield as it was in 1863 and are marked with artillery positions. Meanwhile, the passages from primary sources allow the reader to see key events as the actual participants saw them. The book also brims with information about the various artillery pieces used by both sides, from howitzers to Parrott rifles and Napoleon field guns, and the critical role they played over the course of the battle, right up to its outcome"--P. [4] of cover.

Subject

• Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.) > Tours
• Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
• United States > Artillery operations. > Civil War, 1861-1865

Genre/Form

Electronic books

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prelude -- Wednesday, July 1, 1863 -- Thursday, July 2, 1863 -- Friday, July 3, 1863 -- The aftermath.

ISBN

• 9781572337275 (pbk.)
• 1572337273 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010019338

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library