Twilight At Little Round Top: July 2, 1863, The Tide Turns At Gettysburg
LaFantasie, Glenn W.
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315pp/illus/maps. "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. Clean. Seller Inventory # 010042
Bibliographic Details
Title: Twilight At Little Round Top: July 2, 1863, ...
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
Written by one of the most historians of the Civil War period. Twilight at Little Round Top uses the celebrated “Face of battle” technique to paint a vivid portrait of the second day’s fight at Gettysburg. Told through the experiences of both high-ranking officers and low-ranking privates, LaFantasie’s meticulously researched book is based on newly discovered documents as well as other rate firsthand sources—some of which were mined for the first time from the Oates Family Papers and other private collections—to reconstruct this decisive battle with the dramatic intensity.
Twilight at Little Round Top looks beyond the legendary exploits and heroic tales of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain—who has become known as the savior of Little Round Top—to offer piercing portraits of the other individuals who played a much more pivotal role on the hill, including young Porter Farley from Rochester, New York, who was eager to emancipate America’s slaves by putting his life on the line in battle; Private Billy Jordan, whose family plantation in Alabama depended on slavery; surly and bearish Lieutenant General James Longstreet, blamed for the defeat at Gettysburg by generations of Southerners; and the Union’s Colonel Paddy O’Rorke, whose brave and cool performance on the battlefield belied a gentle and tender heart hidden beneath his Irish mettle.
Brimming with memorable stories of quick wits and formidable courage, Twilight at Little Round Top recounts one day in a brutally devastating war, where grim-faced soldiers gritted their teeth, braved thunder and flames, and flowed their officers’ commands as much as human endurance allowed for the sake of their fluttering flags.
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