Nine Months to Gettysburg: Stannard's Vermonters and the Repulse of Pickett's Charge
On the Fourth of July, 1863, reporting on the aftermath of the Civil War's most crucial battle, the New York Times wrote: A Vermont brigade held the key position at Gettysburg and did more than any other body of men to gain the triumph which decided the fate of the Union. The citizen soldiers led by General George J. Stannard helped stabilize the line, and then shattered the right flank of Pickett's famous charge just when the battle's outcome hung in the balance.Over a decade since its original release, Nine Months to Gettysburg is now available in paperback. Coffin draws on scores of soldiers' letters to relate how and why young recruits fr…
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- ISBN: 978-0-88150-967-0
- EAN: 9780881509670
- Produktnummer: 11146412
- Verlag: Countryman Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 314 S.
- Masse: H25.6 cm x B18.0 cm x D2.2 cm 703 g
- Gewicht: 703
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Howard Coffin, former press secretary to U.S. senator Jim Jeffords, is the author of The Battered Stars, Full Duty, Guns Over the Champlain Valley, and Nine Months to Gettysburg. He lives in Montpelier, Vermont.
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