Gettysburg (The Civil War Battle Series, Book 6) - Hardcover

Reasoner, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1581822200 ISBN 13: 9781581822205

Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

Although Stonewall Jackson was dead, Confederate morale was never higher. The victory at Chancellorsville had come against overwhelming odds, and the Southerners savored the sight of the Union army in retreat. In less than a year's time, the Federals had been pushed back from the outskirts of Richmond and now virtually out of Virginia.

Thus begins Gettysburg, the newest addition to The Civil War Battle Series, the Brannon family saga that has been praised as robust, detail-rich and well-paced...equal parts pathos and accuracy"" (Publishers Weekly) and ""fraught with passion, tension, and tenderness"" (Booklist).

Will and Mac, the two eldest Brannon sons, are in the ranks of the Stonewall Brigade and Jeb Stuart's cavalry. A short bivouac allows them to visit the family farm for some rest and recuperation from the fighting. Almost as soon as Will rejoins his company, Jackson's former corps marches up the Shenandoah Valley, sweeping the Union troops out of Winchester. A natural route to the North lies open, and Lee's army heads in that direction.

The eventual clash known as the battle of Gettysburg occupies the rest of the book. Will, who is involved from the first day, is kept in the thick of the combat around Culp's Hill and the right side of the Union line. Mac arrives on the evening of the second day, and he sees action with the Southern cavalry at Hanover. Both are swallowed up in the melee of the fighting, and neither emerges unscathed.

Bruised and bleeding, the Confederate army stumbles back into Virginia, leaving a fourth of their number behind on the Pennsylvania ground. News of the defeat and the huge number of casualties spreads quickly. Like thousands of families acrossthe South, the Brannon clan in Culpeper County anxiously awaits word of the fates of two sons.

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About this title

About the Author

James Reasoner is a veteran writer of historical fiction and author of several volumes in the Wagons West Series. In addition to Shiloh, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, and Gettysburg in the Civil War Battle Series, he has written a frontier trilogy set in the years before the Lewis and Clarke expedition. Reasoner lives in Forth Worth, Texas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1581822200
• ISBN 13: 9781581822205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432