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Fight Like the Devil - The First Day at Gettysberg (Paperback)
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Fight Like the Devil - The First Day at Gettysberg (Paperback)
Series: Emerging Civil War Series
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Loot Price R231
Discovery Miles 2 310
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Do not bring on a general engagement, Confederate General Robert E.
Lee warned his commanders. The Army of Northern Virginia, slicing
its way through south-central Pennsylvania, was too spread out, too
vulnerable, for a full-scale engagement with its old nemesis, the
Army of the Potomac. Too much was riding on this latest Confederate
invasion of the North. Too much was at stake. As Confederate forces
groped their way through the mountain passes, a chance encounter
with Federal cavalry on the outskirts of a small Pennsylvania
crossroads town triggered a series of events that quickly escalated
beyond Lee's-or anyone's-control. Waves of soldiers materialized on
both sides in a constantly shifting jigsaw of combat."You will have
to fight like the devil . . ." one Union cavalryman predicted. The
costliest battle in the history of the North American continent had
begun. July 1, 1863 remains the most overlooked phase of the battle
of Gettysburg, yet it set the stage for all the fateful events that
followed. Bringing decades of familiarity to the discussion,
historians Chris Mackowski and Daniel T. Davis, in their
always-engaging style, recount the action of that first day of
battle and explore the profound implications in Fight Like the
Devil.
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