Story of the Battles at Gettysburg

James K. P. Scott

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Year: 2017
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780811766944
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

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.

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 Lee’s Army
• IX. A Fortuitious Concentration at Gettysburg
• X. McPherson’s Ridge and Grove
• XI. At 10:30 A. M.
• XII. Time Out
• XIII. On Herr’s Ridge
• XIV. The Iverson Field
• XV. East Cemetery Hill
• XVI. Back to Willoughby’s Run
• XVII. The Battle at Willoughby’s Run
• XVIII. The Beginning of the End
• XIX. Pender Takes the Field
• XX. The Final Stand
• XXI. Epilogue
• XXII. Addenda: Record of Mortally Wounded