The first day at Gettysburg : crisis at the crossroads /

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"Hassler's history [will survive] as our most detailed narrative of the first day's battle, examining the day's action so minutely that no succeeding historian of Gettysburg will be able to ignore it. Hassler's book has solid virtues in addition to its thoroughness of detail...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hassler, Warren W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2010], ©1970.
Subjects:
1861-1865
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
Bataille de Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Penns., 1863.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
Pennsylvania > Gettysburg
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The convergence on Gettysburg
  • The meeting of the ways
  • The early morning fight of Buford
  • Reynolds climaxes his career
  • The first affair at the railroad cut
  • The Iron Brigade in McPherson Grove
  • Reinforcements come forward
  • The arrival and deployment of the Eleventh Corps
  • The advent of Early, and his fight with Schurz
  • The Oak Rridge combat of Robinson and Rodes
  • The second contest at the railroad cut
  • The federals lose McPherson Ridge
  • Pender's clash with Doubleday on Seminary Ridge
  • The retreat through the town
  • The federals rally on Cemetery Hill
  • The price in blood.

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