Gettysburg : The 3rd Day

Gettysburg : The 3rd Day

  Men with sallow faces stare grimly across the battlefield, each lost in his own thoughts. It is the 3rd Day at Gettysburg. A weariness clings to their bones, exhaustion to their bodies. Each man clutches his rifle as a silent tension drifts across the tall...
Gettysburg : The 1st Day

Gettysburg : The 1st Day

Gettysburg: On this day in 1863 Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia clashed with the Union Army of the Potomac under the command of Gen. George Gordon Meade. Less than three months before, Lee with the aid of the now fallen Gen. Thomas J. Jackson...
Gettysburg : The 1st Day

Book Review: Lost Triumph, Lee’s Real Plan at Gettysburg

Lee’s Plan at Gettysburg It has been a fierce debate for more than a century. What was really at the heart of the motivation behind the attack of Pickett’s Charge? What really prompted Lee to make that fatal frontal charge across that open ground, in full view...