They Met at Gettysburg
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They Met at Gettysburg

The Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War

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They Met at Gettysburg

The Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War

About this book

A string of Confederate victories at Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville led to the June 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania by General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.  As Lee was aiming toward Harrisburg, the state capital, General George G. Meade’s Army of the Potomac drove hard to catch up with him.  Although neither general had planned to fight at the small crossroads town of Gettysburg, a skirmish broke out on July 1 when advance elements of the Confederate army collided with pickets from a Yankee cavalry brigade.
 
Three days of bitter fighting ensued.  When the vicious encounter was over – having been fought at places like the railroad cut, Devil’s Den, the Wheatfield, Little Round Top, and Culp’s Hill, and culminating in Pickett’s desperate charge on July 3 – Lee’s army was in retreat, and Meade had scored a major victory for the North.
 
Based on deep knowledge of the battle and battlefield and driven by masterful, excitingly paced storytelling, They Met at Gettysburg is the classic narrative of the greatest battle ever fought on American soil.

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Table of contents

  1. PROLOGUE TO THE THIRD EDITION
  2. PROLOGUE TO THE FIRST EDITION
  3. CHAPTER 1 LEE TAKES THE OFFENSIVE
  4. CHAPTER 2 THE INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA
  5. CHAPTER 3 HOW THE CONFEDERATES BEHAVED
  6. CHAPTER 4 LINCOLN SWAPS HORSES
  7. CHAPTER 5 JEB STUART SLIPS HIS HALTER
  8. CHAPTER 6 LEE versus MEADE-A STUDY IN LEADERSHIP
  9. CHAPTER 7 CONFEDERATE STRATEGY IN JUNE 1863
  10. CHAPTER 8 MEADE TAKES COMMAND
  11. CHAPTER 9 THE UNION ARMY ADVANCES ON A BROAD FRONT
  12. CHAPTER 10 THE STAGE IS SET
  13. CHAPTER 11 GETTYSBURG OPENS WITH A CAVALRY ENGAGEMENT
  14. CHAPTER 12 TWO UNION CORPS OVERWHELMED
  15. CHAPTER 13 LEE MOVES IN AS MEADE HESITATES
  16. CHAPTER 14 THE PAUSE BETWEEN BATTLES
  17. CHAPTER 15 THE SECOND DAY
  18. CHAPTER 16 THE OPPOSING COMMANDERS REVIEW THE SITUATION
  19. CHAPTER 17 LEE REGROUPS FOR THE SUPREME EFFORT
  20. CHAPTER 18 LONGSTREET NODS AND PICKETT ATTACKS
  21. CHAPTER 19 THE BATTLE ENDS WITH A CAVALRY FIGHT
  22. CHAPTER 20 THE LONG ROAD BACK
  23. CHAPTER 21 A LOST OPPORTUNITY TO END THE WAR
  24. EPILOGUE
  25. BIBLIOGRAPHY