GettysburgEarl Schenck Miers, Richard A. Brown M.E. Sharpe, 1996 M03 5 - 258 páginas Originally published in 1948, this book tells the story of the three fateful days of Gettysburg in the words of the men and women who lived it. No mere chronicle of troop movements and military decisions, it is a path-breaking work in the reporting of Civil War history. Praised by The New York Times Book Review as the very best collection of firsthand accounts, written by soldiers and civilians, of the battle of Gettysburg, this volume has been out of print for many years. Edited by Earl Schenk Miers (1910-1972), one of the pioneers in reviving popular interest in the American Civil War and in Lincoln, this new edition is enriched with a Foreword by noted Civil War scholar James I. Robertson, Jr. For many years a favorite among Civil War buffs and enthusiasts, this edition is ideally suited for use in American history courses on the Civil War and military history and in American history survey courses. The[se] well-chosen excerpts . . . offer a . . . richness of texture, time and place that most narrative histories utterly fail to achieve. - The New York Times Book Review |
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Our Town Had a Great Fright | 19 |
No Band of Schoolgirls | 38 |
I Had Just Put My Bread in the Pans | 51 |
A Brisk Little Scurry | 70 |
The World is Most Unchristian Yet | 87 |
We Dozed in the Heat | 164 |
The Great Hoarse Roar of Battle | 182 |
My God It was True | 197 |
Your Sorrowing Soldier | 211 |
We Have Our House to Ourselves | 225 |
Flowers Shall Bloom Upon These Graves | 238 |
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Bibliography | 245 |
We Ran Like a Herd of Wild Cattle | 116 |
Hurl Forward Your Howling Lines | 134 |
Such Then is the Decision | 149 |