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Author : Paul D. Walker
Release : 2002
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cavalry Battle that Saved the Union by : Paul D. Walker
Download or read book The Cavalry Battle that Saved the Union written by Paul D. Walker. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This battle, pitting two of America's most gifted military heroes against each other, decided the fate of the Civil War.
Author : Edward G. Longacre
Release : 1993-02-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 414/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cavalry at Gettysburg by : Edward G. Longacre
Download or read book The Cavalry at Gettysburg written by Edward G. Longacre. This book was released on 1993-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bristles with analysis, details, judgments, personality profiles, and evaluations and combat descriptions, even down to the squadron and company levels."-Civil War Times Illustrated
Author : Eric J. Wittenberg
Release : 2013
Genre : Gettysburg Campaign, 1863
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 941/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg by : Eric J. Wittenberg
Download or read book Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg written by Eric J. Wittenberg. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few aspects of the battle of Gettysburg are as misunderstood as the role played by the cavalry of both sides. This is the first and only book to examine in detail how the mounted arm directly affected the outcome of the battle, and this revised edition of is the most detailed tactical treatment of the fighting on Brinkerhoff's Ridge yet published.
Author : Eric J. Wittenberg
Release : 2011-10-27
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 712/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions by : Eric J. Wittenberg
Download or read book Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions written by Eric J. Wittenberg. This book was released on 2011-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning historical study of the important role played by Union and Confederate horse soldiers on the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg. The Union army’s victory at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 3, 1863, is widely considered to have been the turning point in America’s War between the States. But the valuable contributions of the mounted troops, both Northern and Rebel, in the decisive three-day conflict have gone largely unrecognized. Acclaimed Civil War historian Eric J. Wittenberg now gives the cavalries their proper due. In Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry Actions, Wittenberg explores three important mounted engagements undertaken during the battle and how they influenced the final outcome. The courageous but doomed response by Brig. Gen. Elon J. Farnsworth’s cavalry brigade in the wake of Pickett’s Charge is recreated in fascinating detail, revealing the fatal flaws in the general’s plan to lead his riders against entrenched Confederate infantry and artillery. The tenacious assault led by Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt on South Cavalry Field is also examined, as is the strategic victory at Fairfield by Southern troops that nearly destroyed the Sixth US Cavalry and left Hagerstown Road open, enabling General Lee’s eventual retreat. Winner of the prestigious Bachelder-Coddington Award for historical works concerning the Battle of Gettysburg, Eric J. Wittenberg’s Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry Actions rights a long-standing wrong by lifting these all-important engagements out of obscurity. A must-read for Civil War buffs everywhere, it completes the story of the battle that changed American history forever.
Author : Paul D. Walker
Release : 2002-04-30
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 950/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cavalry Battle That Saved the Union by : Paul D. Walker
Download or read book The Cavalry Battle That Saved the Union written by Paul D. Walker. This book was released on 2002-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War historians have long been puzzled by Pickett’s seemingly suicidal frontal attack on the Union center at Gettysburg. Here, for the first time, Paul D. Walker reveals Robert E. Lee’s true plan for victory at Gettysburg: a simultaneous strike against the Union center from the front and rear—Pickett’s infantry to charge the front, while Stuart’s cavalry struck the rear. The frontal assault by Pickett went off as scheduled, but as Stuart’s forces approached from the rear, they encountered a Union cavalry contingent. As the forces joined, the Union cavalry leader was quickly killed, and command fell to one of the most dynamic figures in American history—George Armstrong Custer. What followed was America’s greatest cavalry battle: 7,500 Confederate horsemen ranged against 5,000 Union cavalry, Jeb Stuart against George Custer, with the outcome of the Civil War at stake.
