THE BATTLE OF LITTLE ROUND TOP AS IT HAS NEVER BEFORE SEEN-THROUGH
THE EYES OF THE SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT THERE
""Here is the real story of the epic fight for Little Round Top,
shorn of the mythology long obscuring this pivotal Gettysburg
moment. A vivid and eloquent book."" --Stephen W. Sears, author of
Gettysburg
""Little Round Top has become iconic in Civil War literature and
American memory. In the emotional recollection of our great war, if
there was one speck on the landscape that decided a battle and the
future of a nation, then surely this was it. The story of the July
2, 1863 struggle for that hill outside Gettysburg goes deeper into
our consciousness than that, however. The men who fought for it
then and there believed it to be decisive, and that is why they
died for it. Glenn W. LaFantasie's Twilight at Little Round Top
addresses that epic struggle, how those warriors felt then and
later, and their physical and emotional attachment to a piece of
ground that linked them forever with their nation's fate. This is
military and social history at its finest."" --W.C. Davis, author
of Lincoln's Men and An Honorable Defeat
""Few military episodes of the Civil War have attracted as much
attention as the struggle for Little Round Top on the second day of
Gettysburg. This judicious and engaging book navigates confidently
through a welter of contradictory testimony to present a splendid
account of the action. It also places events on Little Round Top,
which often are exaggerated, within the broader sweep of the
battle. All readers interested in the battle of Gettysburg will
read this book with enjoyment and profit."" --Gary W. Gallagher,
author of The Confederate War
""In his beautifully written narrative, Glenn LaFantasie tells the
story of the battle for Little Round Top from the perspective of
the soldiers who fought and died in July 1863. Using well-chosen
quotes from a wide variety of battle participants, TWILIGHT puts
the reader in the midst of the fight--firing from behind boulders
with members of the 4th Alabama, running up the hillside into
battle with the men of the 140th New York, and watching in horror
as far too many men die. This book offers an elegy to the courage
of those men, a meditation on the meaning of war, and a cautionary
tale about the sacrifices nations ask of their soldiers and the
causes for which those sacrifices are needed."" --Amy Kinsel,
Winnrer of the 1993 Allan Nevins Prize for From These Honored Dead:
Gettysburg in American Culture
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