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Story of the Battles at Gettysburg
About this book
The Harrisburg Telegraph says: “…an unique and authoritative book, The Story of the Battles at Gettysburg” will arouse great interest among military men throughout the country.”
It is not generally known that the three-day battle of Gettysburg, one of the most important and significant engagements of the Civil War, is included in the course of training of student officers in practically all the European war colleges as an outstanding example of tactics and strategy.
Once a year the students of the West Point Military Academy spend several days at Gettysburg in studying the battle problems during the first three days of July 1863.
The outstanding features to the military, are the maps of the battlefield…these maps are drawn to scale with careful fidelity and the position of each regiment and branch of service is shown every hour of the day at different stages in the progress of the battles.
It is not generally known that the three-day battle of Gettysburg, one of the most important and significant engagements of the Civil War, is included in the course of training of student officers in practically all the European war colleges as an outstanding example of tactics and strategy.
Once a year the students of the West Point Military Academy spend several days at Gettysburg in studying the battle problems during the first three days of July 1863.
The outstanding features to the military, are the maps of the battlefield…these maps are drawn to scale with careful fidelity and the position of each regiment and branch of service is shown every hour of the day at different stages in the progress of the battles.
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Yes, you can access Story of the Battles at Gettysburg by James K. P. Scott in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & American Civil War History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- I. Greetings to Old Friends and Hail to the New
- II. Gettysburg Before and After the Battle
- III. Appointment of George Gordon Meade to Command of the Army of the Potomac
- IV. George Gordon Meade
- V. The First Day
- VI. Robert E. Lee
- VII. The Red Shirt in Battle
- VIII. General Leeâs Army
- IX. A Fortuitious Concentration at Gettysburg
- X. McPhersonâs Ridge and Grove
- XI. At 10:30 A. M.
- XII. Time Out
- XIII. On Herrâs Ridge
- XIV. The Iverson Field
- XV. East Cemetery Hill
- XVI. Back to Willoughbyâs Run
- XVII. The Battle at Willoughbyâs Run
- XVIII. The Beginning of the End
- XIX. Pender Takes the Field
- XX. The Final Stand
- XXI. Epilogue
- XXII. Addenda: Record of Mortally Wounded