Bibliograph

Barksdale's charge, the true high tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Phillip Thomas Tucker

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Barksdale's charge, the true high tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Phillip Thomas Tucker

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmapsplates

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Barksdale's charge

Oclc number

829056099

Responsibility statement

Phillip Thomas Tucker

Sub title

the true high tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863

Summary

Though long overshadowed by the more famous Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble Charge of July 3, the advance of Barksdale's men from Seminary Ridge, through the Peach Orchard, and across Plum Run toward Cemetery Ridge has been referred to as "the grandest charge ever seen by mortal man." Here for the first time is the story of Barksdale's Mississippians and their gallant charge told with the detail and passion it so richly deserves

Table Of Contents

"We have never been whipped and we never can be!" -- "To lay my life on the altar of my country" -- "We are going into Yankey land" -- "Exceedingly impatient for the order to advance" -- "The grandest charge ever seen by mortal man!" -- "We want those guns!" -- "The guiding spirit of the battle" -- "On to Cemetery Ridge!" -- "It seemed as if nothing could live an instant" -- Death in the gloaming -- "Great God! Have we got the universe to whip?" -- When glory was out of date"

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