For the past 153 years, printed Gettysburg battlefi eld guides have been in abundance. Although the history of this epic battle has gripped the American imagination, misinformation and apocryphal stories predominate. In Don’t Give an Inch, the authors aim to challenge some of these old myths while providing a current, accurate, and easily accessible guide to the second day, focusing exclusively on the southern section of the battlefi eld. In these goals, they have succeeded. Mackowski, White, and Davis pick up where they left off with their previous book (Fight Like the Devil: Th e First Day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863). Th ey begin with a summary of the campaign, discussing the fi ghting on July 1 and the Confederate plan for July 2. Th e authors commence their narrative of the second day by analyzing the earlymorning argument between Lee and Longstreet. Th roughout the book, they emphasize contingency, helping readers understand the reasoning behind the generals’ major combat decisions. Additionally, the authors highlight the personalities of various soldiers, blue and gray, making this more than just a “topdown” tactical study. Generally, Don’t Give an Inch follows the National Park Service route through the southern sector of the battlefi eld, but it also provides additional Lee W. Sherrill, Jr, Th e 21st North Carolina Infantry: A Civil War History, with a Roster of Offi cers (Jeff erson City, NC: McFarland Publishers, 2015). 525 pp. Paper, $45.00. ISBN 978– 07864– 7626– 8.
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“It Made the Federal Cavalry” most Union infantryman early in the war was “Whoever saw a dead Cavalryman?”1 Th e cavalry aspects of the Gettysburg Campaign give any student of the Civil War an excellent opportunity to examine several signifi cant developments in the fi ghting abilities, tactics, and leaders of the Union Cavalry. It also saw the fi rst signifi cant loss of confi dence in the vaunted Confederate Cavalry. Th is paper will examine three signifi cant cavalry events within the Gettysburg Campaign in order to show the reader the Union Cavalry’s development as an outstanding fi ghting force and the fi rst inklings of selfdoubt within the Confederate high command with regards to its cavalry arm of the service. Th e engagements at Brandy Station and Upperville saw the innovation of new tactics as well as a resistance on the part of Stuart to accept and respond to this new threat. More importantly, Union cavalrymen gained the selfconfi dence in their own abilities during these engagements. Union Gen. John Buford’s defense of key terrain on July 1 was signifi cant for it showed another versatile use of cavalry and aff ected the outcome of the entire campaign, a fi rst for the Union Cavalry. Th e Confederacy’s lack of intelligence about Buford was also key on this day due in large part to Stuart’s less than stellar raid into Hanover. Th ough Lee never actually blamed Stuart for the loss at Gettysburg, Lee did admit that better intelligence could have been available had more Confederate cavalry been with him during the fi rst two days of the engagement.
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John Paul Strain Texas, where he and his wife Nancy have raised a family of four in the comfort of lone star pace and personality. One of the art market’s most successful and popular painters since 1991, his background is decidedly diff erent from contemporaries like Don Troiani, Mort Kunstler, and Dale Gallon. Another irony, “My father actually wanted me to be a baseball player,” said Strain during a recent appearance in Gettysburg.1 “I was his baseball hobby in high school. I actually counted my equipment in my senior year of high school and I had over a hundred bats, a pitching machine with 400 baseballs, thirty pairs of cleats and twentyfi ve gloves. I went to Florida State with the promise of a full ride scholarship in 1975, but there was a coach-
约翰·保罗·斯特兰(John Paul Strain)在德克萨斯州，他和妻子南希(Nancy)以孤星般的步伐和个性，舒适地抚养了一个四口之家。作为自1991年以来艺术市场上最成功、最受欢迎的画家之一，他的背景与同时代的唐·特罗亚尼、莫特·昆斯特勒和戴尔·加伦截然不同。另一个具有讽刺意味的是，“我父亲实际上希望我成为一名棒球运动员，”斯特兰最近在葛底斯堡露面时说，“我是他高中时的棒球爱好。事实上，我在高中最后一年数了一下我的装备，我有100多个球棒，一个有400个棒球的投球机，30双钉鞋和25副手套。1975年，我以全额奖学金的承诺去了佛罗里达州立大学，但是有一个教练
{"title":"Artist, John Paul Strain: The Last Man Standing","authors":"Sonny Fulks","doi":"10.1353/GET.2017.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GET.2017.0017","url":null,"abstract":"John Paul Strain Texas, where he and his wife Nancy have raised a family of four in the comfort of lone star pace and personality. One of the art market’s most successful and popular painters since 1991, his background is decidedly diff erent from contemporaries like Don Troiani, Mort Kunstler, and Dale Gallon. Another irony, “My father actually wanted me to be a baseball player,” said Strain during a recent appearance in Gettysburg.1 “I was his baseball hobby in high school. I actually counted my equipment in my senior year of high school and I had over a hundred bats, a pitching machine with 400 baseballs, thirty pairs of cleats and twentyfi ve gloves. I went to Florida State with the promise of a full ride scholarship in 1975, but there was a coach-","PeriodicalId":268075,"journal":{"name":"Gettysburg Magazine","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125127077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Yankee Describes His Experiences A dismal silence reigned during that forenoon, the forerunner generally of violent catastrophes. In the aft ernoon a fearful cannonade was heard, which shook the earth. Our hearts were beating fast, our anxiety was at fever heat, for it was clear to us that this day was signifi cant. We had the presentiment that this would be the critical day, the decisive battle. When night approached, cannon and musketry fi ring ceased. What was the result? Th e musicians remained silent. Could we base any hopes on this? No news came to us. In utter despair, tired and hungry, we spent the night lying on the green sward. Th e sun woke us on July 4th. But what a 4th was this! At home it was a day of jubilation, while here we did not know whether the enemy had not succeeded in shaking the foundation of our republic. We were huddled together on a fi eld, surA Yankee Describes His Experiences behind Pickett’s Division on Seminary Ridge
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{"title":"Apostle of Union: A Political Biography of Edward Everett by Matthew Mason (review)","authors":"Evan C. Rothera","doi":"10.1353/get.2017.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/get.2017.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":268075,"journal":{"name":"Gettysburg Magazine","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114226757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
For the past 153 years, printed Gettysburg battlefi eld guides have been in abundance. Although the history of this epic battle has gripped the American imagination, misinformation and apocryphal stories predominate. In Don’t Give an Inch, the authors aim to challenge some of these old myths while providing a current, accurate, and easily accessible guide to the second day, focusing exclusively on the southern section of the battlefi eld. In these goals, they have succeeded. Mackowski, White, and Davis pick up where they left off with their previous book (Fight Like the Devil: Th e First Day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863). Th ey begin with a summary of the campaign, discussing the fi ghting on July 1 and the Confederate plan for July 2. Th e authors commence their narrative of the second day by analyzing the earlymorning argument between Lee and Longstreet. Th roughout the book, they emphasize contingency, helping readers understand the reasoning behind the generals’ major combat decisions. Additionally, the authors highlight the personalities of various soldiers, blue and gray, making this more than just a “topdown” tactical study. Generally, Don’t Give an Inch follows the National Park Service route through the southern sector of the battlefi eld, but it also provides additional Lee W. Sherrill, Jr, Th e 21st North Carolina Infantry: A Civil War History, with a Roster of Offi cers (Jeff erson City, NC: McFarland Publishers, 2015). 525 pp. Paper, $45.00. ISBN 978– 07864– 7626– 8.
{"title":"Don’t Give an Inch: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863—From Little Round Top to Cemetery Ridge by Chris Mackowski, Kristopher D. White, and Daniel T. Davis (review)","authors":"Elijah Palmer","doi":"10.1353/GET.2017.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GET.2017.0019","url":null,"abstract":"For the past 153 years, printed Gettysburg battlefi eld guides have been in abundance. Although the history of this epic battle has gripped the American imagination, misinformation and apocryphal stories predominate. In Don’t Give an Inch, the authors aim to challenge some of these old myths while providing a current, accurate, and easily accessible guide to the second day, focusing exclusively on the southern section of the battlefi eld. In these goals, they have succeeded. Mackowski, White, and Davis pick up where they left off with their previous book (Fight Like the Devil: Th e First Day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863). Th ey begin with a summary of the campaign, discussing the fi ghting on July 1 and the Confederate plan for July 2. Th e authors commence their narrative of the second day by analyzing the earlymorning argument between Lee and Longstreet. Th roughout the book, they emphasize contingency, helping readers understand the reasoning behind the generals’ major combat decisions. Additionally, the authors highlight the personalities of various soldiers, blue and gray, making this more than just a “topdown” tactical study. Generally, Don’t Give an Inch follows the National Park Service route through the southern sector of the battlefi eld, but it also provides additional Lee W. Sherrill, Jr, Th e 21st North Carolina Infantry: A Civil War History, with a Roster of Offi cers (Jeff erson City, NC: McFarland Publishers, 2015). 525 pp. Paper, $45.00. ISBN 978– 07864– 7626– 8.","PeriodicalId":268075,"journal":{"name":"Gettysburg Magazine","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128119257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
By early in the morning on July 1, 1863, Maj. Gen. Robert Rodes’s troops were on the move from Heidlersburg toward the nearby town of Gettysburg. Th at division formed part of Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell’s newly reorganized Second Corps, which also included the troops commanded by Maj. Gens. Jubal A. Early and Edward “Old Allegheny” Johnson. Rodes had emerged at Chancellorsville as one of the biggest heroes in Robert E. Lee’s army, earning him promotion as permanent head of the division. His command included the brigades led by Brig. Gens. Dodson Ramseur, Alfred Iverson, George Doles, Junius Daniel, and Col. Edward O’Neal. Early’s troops trailed closely behind Rodes’s division, while Johnson’s troops remained on the western side of South Mountain near Scotland village. Th e action around Gettysburg began earlier that day, when Henry Heth’s division from Ambrose Powell Hill’s Th ird Corps encountered some enemy troops just northwest of town. Th ose men were fi rst thought to be nothing more than a small militia force. Th ey instead were veteran troopers from Brig. Gen. John Buford’s division, part of the Army of the Potomac. Using delaying tactics, Buford’s dismounted cavalrymen slowed down Heth’s advance long enough for the infantry from the Federal First Corps to arrive on the fi eld. Within a short time, the men from Henry Heth’s and Dorsey Pender’s divisions were engaged in a fi erce and growing battle along both sides of the turnpike leading into town from Chambersburg.1
1863年7月1日清晨，罗伯特·罗兹少将的部队正从海德堡向附近的葛底斯堡进发。该师是理查德·s·尤厄尔中将新近改组的第二军团的一部分，第二军团还包括由少将指挥的部队。Jubal A. Early和Edward " Old Allegheny " Johnson。罗兹在钱瑟勒斯维尔战役中成为罗伯特·e·李将军麾下最伟大的英雄之一，并因此晋升为该师的永久团长。他的指挥包括由准将率领的旅。Dodson Ramseur, Alfred Iverson, George Doles, Junius Daniel和Edward O 'Neal上校。厄尔利的部队紧跟在罗德的师后面，而约翰逊的部队则留在靠近苏格兰村的南山西侧。当天早些时候，葛底斯堡周围的战斗开始了，安布罗斯·鲍威尔·希尔的第三军亨利·赫斯的师在葛底斯堡西北部遇到了一些敌军。这些人最初被认为只不过是一支小型民兵部队。取而代之的是约翰·布福德准将(John Buford)师的老兵，这是波托马克军团的一部分。布福德下马的骑兵使用拖延战术，拖慢了赫斯的前进速度，让联邦第一军团的步兵有足够的时间到达战场。在很短的时间内，亨利·赫斯和多尔西·彭德两师的士兵就在钱伯斯堡通往城镇的收费公路两侧展开了激烈而日益激烈的战斗
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{"title":"Gettysburg 1863: Seething Hell; The Epic Battle of the Civil War in the Soldiers’ Own Words by Thomas R. Pero (review)","authors":"T. Orr","doi":"10.1353/GET.2017.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GET.2017.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":268075,"journal":{"name":"Gettysburg Magazine","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124994750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Hancock-Walker Correspondence on Gettysburg Francis Amasa Walker was born in Boston in 1840 to a secure place among Boston’s Brahmin elite. He graduated from Amherst College in 1860 with “two prizes for ex tempore speaking” and was ready to begin reading law. But in August 1861 he enlisted in the 15th Massachusetts, serving as regimental sergeant major, and fought through most of the major campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. He was soon promoted to captain, then major, and then lieutenant colonel. He sustained a serious wound from a shell splinter at Chancellorsville and did not return to service until August 1863. Th e following year, he was captured at Reams’s Station and was an occupant of Libby Prison until his exchange in October 1864. He left the army in January 1865, but not before Winfi eld Scott Hancock had recommended him for promotion to brevet brigadier general of Volunteers (which was confi rmed in 1866). Walker went on to carve out a manysided career as a journalist, The HancockWalker Correspondence on Gettysburg
{"title":"The Hancock-Walker Correspondence on Gettysburg","authors":"A. Guelzo, B. Kirk","doi":"10.1353/GET.2017.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GET.2017.0003","url":null,"abstract":"The Hancock-Walker Correspondence on Gettysburg Francis Amasa Walker was born in Boston in 1840 to a secure place among Boston’s Brahmin elite. He graduated from Amherst College in 1860 with “two prizes for ex tempore speaking” and was ready to begin reading law. But in August 1861 he enlisted in the 15th Massachusetts, serving as regimental sergeant major, and fought through most of the major campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. He was soon promoted to captain, then major, and then lieutenant colonel. He sustained a serious wound from a shell splinter at Chancellorsville and did not return to service until August 1863. Th e following year, he was captured at Reams’s Station and was an occupant of Libby Prison until his exchange in October 1864. He left the army in January 1865, but not before Winfi eld Scott Hancock had recommended him for promotion to brevet brigadier general of Volunteers (which was confi rmed in 1866). Walker went on to carve out a manysided career as a journalist, The HancockWalker Correspondence on Gettysburg","PeriodicalId":268075,"journal":{"name":"Gettysburg Magazine","volume":"68 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114436176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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