The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader

An Eyewitness History of the Civil War?s Greatest Battle

Rod Gragg

• Publisher: Regnery History
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781621570431
• eBook ISBN:
  9781621570738
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

One hundred and fifty years after the Battle of Gettysburg, the words of the soldiers and onlookers present for those three fateful days still reverberate with the power of their courage and sacrifice. The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader: An Eyewitness History of the Civil War's Greatest Battle gathers letters, journals, articles and speeches from the people who lived through those legendary three days. Tied together with narrative by historian Rod Gragg and illustrated with a wealth of photographs and images, The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader will transport you to the battlefield, immersing you in the emotional intensity of the struggle of brother against brother for the future of the United States of America."Here they are penetrating the heart of a hostile country leaving their homes beyond broad rivers and the largest of the enemies armies while in front of them is gathering all of resistance that can be obtained by a power fruitful of every element of military power."
— Confederate soldier T.G. Pollock on the 30th of June, 1863, the day before the Battle of Gettysburg

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Dedication
• Introduction
• CHAPTER ONE - “Advance into Pennsylvania”
• CHAPTER TWO - “Look at Pharaoh’s Army Going to the Red Sea”
• CHAPTER THREE - “Into the Jaws of the Enemy”
• CHAPTER FOUR - “We Must Fight a Battle Here”
• CHAPTER FIVE - “He Is There and I Am Going to Attack Him”
• CHAPTER SIX - “Advance, Colonel, and Take Those Colors”
• CHAPTER SEVEN - “It Was a Close and Bloody Struggle”
• CHAPTER EIGHT - “The Whole Rebel Line Was Pouring Out Thunder and Iron”
• CHAPTER NINE - “Up, Men, and to Your Posts!”
• CHAPTER TEN
• APPENDIX 1 - Official After-Action Report of Major General George Meade
• APPENDIX 2 - Official After-Action Report of General Robert E. Lee
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright Page