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A collection of short stories and poems from Milang's "Lakeliners"
Writers Group.
This gripping narrative is an in-depth study of the valiant men of
General John Caldwell's Union Division during the Gettysburg
Campaign. Caldwell's Division made a desperate stand against a
tough and determined Confederate force in farmer George Rose's
nearly 20-acre Wheatfield. Ready for harvest, the infamous
Wheatfield would change hands nearly six times in the span of two
hours of fighting on July 2, becoming a trampled, bloody, no-man's
land for thousands of wounded soldiers. Smith examines the lives of
the Union soldiers in the ranks-as well as leaders Cross, Kelly,
Zook, Brooke, and Caldwell himself. From Colonel Edward Cross's
black bandana, to the famed Irish Brigade's charge on Stoney Hill,
to a lone young man from Washington County whose grave is marked in
stone nearby, James Smith's Storming the Wheatfield goes deep into
the lives the soldiers, evoking a personal connection with the
troops. Smith painstakingly contacted nearly one hundred
descendants of Caldwell's soldiers, producing one of the most
extensively researched narratives to date.
The 2013 collection of stories and poems from Milang's "Lakeliners"
Writers' Group. Written By Chris Bagley, Shirley Chaplin, Danielle
Kerr, Stuart Jones, Greta Mansveld and Lee West
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