Lee and His Men at Gettysburg: The Death of a Nation

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GETTYSBURG

 

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GETTYSBURG

 

The Death of a Nation

 

Clifford Dowdey

 

 

Skyhorse Publishing

 

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

 

contents

 

   
I  R
ENDEZVOUS WITH
D
ISASTER

 

  
II  T
HE
O
PENING
P
HASE

 

 
III  “W
E
M
UST
A
LL
D
O
M
ORE
T
HAN
F
ORMERLY

 

 
IV  “A
LL
I
S
V
ANITY
….”

 

  
V  “A
ND
T
HEN
A. P. H
ILL
C
AME
U
P
….”

 

 
VI  “T
HE
G
OOD
S
OLDIER

 

 
VII  “L
EE’S
W
ARHORSE

 

VIII  “P
ICKETT’S
C
HARGE

 

     
A N
OTE ON
S
OURCES AND
S
ELECTED
B
IBLIOGRAPHY

 

     
A
PPENDIX

 

     
I
NDEX

 

MAPS

(by Guy Fleming)

 
 

1 The Campaign  

 

 

2 The Scene of Battle

 

3 The First Day: July 1, 1863

 

4 The Second Day: July 2,1863

 

5 The Third Day: July 3, 1863

 
 

 

 

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