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Three Days at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership
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Three Days at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership

by Gary W. Gallagher. 373 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Gary W. Gallagher

Publisher:

   Kent State University Press

Place of Publication:

  Kent, OH  

Publication Year:

  1999
Subjects:   Gettysburg (Pa.), Battle Of, 1863, Command Of Troops--Case Studies
Table of contents
Introduction
Gary W . Gallagher
DAY ONE E
R. E. Lee and July I at Gettysburg Alan T . Nolan 3
Confederate Corps Leadership on the First Day at Gettysburg: A. P. Hill and Richard S. Ewell in a Difficult Debut Gary W. Gallagher 25
From Chancellorsville to Cemetery Hill: O. O. Howard and Eleventh Corps Leadership A . Wilson Greene 44
Three Confederate Disasters on Oak Ridge: Failures of Brigade Leadership on the First Day at Gettysburg Robert K . Krick 72
DAY TWO
"If the Enemy Is There, We Must Attack Him": R. E. Lee and the Second Day at Gettysburg Gary W . Gallagher 109
The Peach Orchard Revisited:
Daniel E. Sickles and the Third Corps on July ,1863 William Glenn Robertson 130
"If Longstreet... Says So, It Is Most Likely Not True": James Longstreet and the Second Day at Gettysburg Robert K . Krick 147
"A Step All-Important and Essential to Victory": Henry W. Slocum and the Twelfth Corps on July I-2, 1863 A . Wilson Greene 169
"No Troops on the Field Had Done Better": John C. Caldwell's Division in the Wheatfield, July , 1863 D. Scott Hartwig 204
DAY THREE
"Rarely Has More Skill, Vigor, or Wisdom Been Shown": George G. Meade on July 3 at Gettysburg Richard A. Sauers 231
James Longstreet's Virginia Defenders Carol Reardon 245
"Every Map of the Field Cries Out about It": The Failure of Confederate Artillery at Pickett's Charge Peter S. Carmichael 270
"I Do Not Believe That Pickett's Division Would Have Reached Our Line": Henry J. Hunt and the Union Artillery on July , 1863 Gary M. Kross 284
Appendix 307
Notes 311
Bibliographic Essay 357
Contributors 363
Index 365
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