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Pale Horse at Plum Run - The First Minnesota at Gettysburg (Paperback, New Ed)
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Pale Horse at Plum Run - The First Minnesota at Gettysburg (Paperback, New Ed)
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Discovery Miles 4 850
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The smoke had just cleared from the last volley of musketry at
Gettysburg. Nearly 70 percent of the First Minnesota regiment lay
dead or dying on the field -- one of the greatest losses of any
unit engaged in the Civil War. Pale Horse at Plum Run is the study
of this single regiment at this crucial moment in American history.
Through painstaking research of firsthand accounts, eyewitness
reports, and official records, Brian Leehan constructs a narrative
remarkable for its attention to detail and careful reportage. Word
of the First's heroic act at Gettysburg quickly spread along Union
lines and back to Minnesota. Their stand late on July 2, 1863,
stopped a furious rebel assault and saved the day for the Union.
Emerging from the chaos of battle, however, firsthand reports
contradicted each other. Confused officers and frightened soldiers
told very different stories of the day's hearsay and camp gossip
for their sources of information. All of this leaves the historical
investigator to ask, what really happened that day at Plum Run? In
order to answer that question, Leehan performs superlative
historical detective work. By focusing on the men themselves -- and
their accounts of the engagement -- he weaves together a narrative
of the First's action on July 2 and 3. Those who escaped the scythe
of battle the first day lived to play a pivotal role the next in
rebuffing the most famous infantry assault in American military
history, Pickett's Charge. By tracking the movements of individual
soldiers over the field of battle, Leehan reconstructs in amazing
detail the story of this remarkable band of soldiers. In his
investigation of the battle Leehan raises important questions about
how we can really know the truth about the past. In cogent appended
essays, the author muses on the lack of standardised timekeeping in
the mid-nineteenth century, on the nature of Civil War weaponry,
and on the emergence of a heroic mythology after the war.
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