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Authors: Clifford Dowdey
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The Death of a Nation
Clifford Dowdey
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Copyright © 1958 by Clifford Dowdey as
Death of a Nation
Copyright renewed 1986, 2011 by Carolyn Dunaway
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dowdey, Clifford, 1904-1979.
[Death of a nation]
Lee and his men at Gettysburg : the death of a nation / Clifford Dowdey.
p. cm.
Originally published: Death of a nation. New York : Knopf, 1958.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61608-353-3 (alk. paper)
1. Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. 2. Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia. 3. Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),
1807-1870. I. Title.
E475.53.D746 2011
973.7’349--dc23
2011017813
Printed in the United States of America
Above the bayonets, mixed and crossed,
Men saw a gray, gigantic ghost,
Receding through the battle-cloud,
And heard across the tempest loud
The death-cry of a nation lost!
—WILL THOMPSON
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