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Author Brown, Kent Masterson, 1949-

Title Retreat from Gettysburg : Lee, logistics, and the Pennsylvania campaign / Kent Masterson Brown.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.7349 B813r 2005    ---  Available
Description xv, 534 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series Civil War America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-503) and index.
Contents Prologue : this has been a sad day for us -- Take what is necessary for the army -- The flies and vermin of the dog days -- We must now return to Virginia -- All that was dear to me is gone -- The scene was wild and desolating -- That vast procession of misery -- An awful time crossing South Mountain -- Use your sabres, don't strike, but thrust! -- The cutting and slashing was beyond description -- Nowhere is safe -- By the blessing providence, I will do it -- A strong line of gopher holes -- I would die before being taken prisoner -- It is heart-rending to live among such scenes -- Epilogue : the army achieved a general success -- Appendix : order of battle.
Subject Gettysburg Campaign, 1863.
ISBN 0807829218 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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