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Retreat from Gettysburg : Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign /
Brown details the retreat of the Army of Northern Virginia from Gettysburg in July 1863, focusing on the complex logistics of moving a 57-mile wagon and ambulance train and tens of thousands of livestock through hostile territory while scavenging for provisions and planning the army's next move...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : this has been a sad day for us
- Take what is necessary for the army
- The flies and vermin of the dog days
- We must now return to Virginia
- All that was dear to me is gone
- The scene was wild and desolating
- That vast procession of misery
- An awful time crossing South Mountain
- Use your sabres, don't strike, but thrust!
- The cutting and slashing was beyond description
- Nowhere is safe
- By the blessing providence, I will do it
- A strong line of gopher holes
- I would die before being taken prisoner
- It is heart-rending to live among such scenes
- Epilogue : the army achieved a general success
- Appendix : order of battle.