Brigades of Gettysburg
The Union and Confederate Brigades at the Battle of Gettysburg
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
• Learn about the paper brigade and the battle of Gettysburg in this incredible book
• Includes Gettysburg maps, maps of Antietam, artillery at Gettysburg, and more
• Based on first-hand accounts
Author Bradley M. Gottfried painstakingly pieced together each brigade’s experience at the Battle of Gettysburg. This brutal battle lasted for days and left soldiers with boredom and dread of what was to come when the guns stopped firing. Visual resources are also in Gottfried’s book, including Gettysburg National Military Park maps, Savas Beatie military atlas, and more.
Readers will experience every angle of this epic fight through stories of forced marches, weary troops, and the bitter and tragic end of the battle. This collection is a fascinating and lively narrative that empowers the soldiers who fought fiercely and died honorably. Every moment of the Battle of Gettysburg is in this comprehensive book.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Gottfried (Roads to Gettysburg) paints a fine-grained portrait of the decisive battle of the Civil War in this exhaustive, engrossing study. In vividly written narratives that draw heavily on first-hand accounts of the fighting, he recounts every brigade's training and prior history in combat, profiles its commanders and chronicles its experiences in the course of the battle. The conflict emerges less as a coherent whole than as a series of small, disjointed brigade-level actions-a perspective close to that of the soldiers, who had no grand overview to help them make sense of the unfolding battle. The result is a human-scale view of the varied experiences of the participants: the grueling marches, the effects of heat and exhaustion, which sometimes felled more soldiers than enemy bullets did, the occasionally prickly relations between officers and men, the tedium and anxiety as soldiers waited to go into action and the panic and elation when they did. Gottfried's treatment has its limitations: it is hard to follow the main "plot" of the battle, since no brigade witnessed more than a fragment of it, and the fine maps of individual battlefield sectors should have been supplemented with an overall map to orient readers. Those unfamiliar with the battle will need to consult a conventional history, but Civil War buffs will delight in this gripping addition to the literature of Gettysburg.
