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The Cavalry Battle That Saved the Union

Name: The Cavalry Battle That Saved the Union
ISBN: 9781455601950

Custer vs. Stuart at Gettysburg

Paul D. Walker,

112 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

The Cavalry Battle That Saved the Union

Custer vs. Stuart at Gettysburg

Paul D. Walker,

About this book

An examination of Robert E. Lee's strategy at Gettysburg that would have achieved a Confederate victory, but resulted in the disaster of Pickett's Charge.

Civil War historians have long been puzzled by Pickett's seemingly suicidal frontal attack on the Union center at Gettysburg.

Here, for the first time, Paul D. Walker reveals Robert E. Lee's true plan for victory at Gettysburg: a simultaneous strike against the Union center from the front and rear—Major General George Pickett's infantry to charge the front, while Major General Jeb Stuart's cavalry struck the rear. The frontal assault by Pickett went off as scheduled, but as Stuart's forces approached from the rear, they encountered a Union cavalry contingent. As the forces joined, the Union cavalry leader was quickly killed, and command fell to one of the most dynamic figures in American history—George Armstrong Custer.

What followed was America's greatest cavalry battle: 7,500 Confederate horsemen ranged against 5,000 Union cavalry, Jeb Stuart against George Custer, with the outcome of the Civil War at stake.

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