Picket's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 | 
 enlarge | Author: George Rippey Stewart
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 204959
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reissue
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0395597722
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.7349
UPC: 046442597722
EAN: 9780395597729
ASIN: 0395597722
Publication Date: October 31, 1995
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Just super June 26, 2007
"Smith" Reader (West Midlands United Kingdom)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really like books that 'take you back' and this book does that well. It leaves the reader feeling if they were actually were there on that day in July.
The Generals and others come to life. I could not put the book down.
Outstanding January 12, 2006
Telboy (Holywood, Co Down, UK)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
As a Civil War buff of many years standing, and having read practically everything I can get my hands on about it (the high-water mark in my opinion being Shelby Foote's masterful narrative), I thought I had seen it all. Not so, for this is a wonderful book and a new perspective on a battle that I thought I knew well. The build-up to Pickett's Charge, the thoughts and feelings of the men and their leaders, the intricacies of the plan and the ground over which the Charge could be made, all are brought alive with a novelist's skill and a historian's sense of place and time. Stewart allows the story to build slowly, as the divisions themselves were gathered slowly, until the moment when the cannons begin to fire and the Charge begins. Then you are overtaken by the noise and horror and heroism of the battlefield, until that final wave is repulsed by Union troops and washed back down the slope to Lee.Never have I read so compelling an account of a single engagement, and I would highly recommend it.
High water mark of the Confederacy August 6, 2004
Joseph Haschka (Glendale, CA USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
The author has written an eminently readable, thoroughly enjoyable, and well-researched book on the third day of the Gettysburg battle, July 3, 1863. An especially rewarding read if one has toured, or plans to visit, the battlefield site. The author's unpretentious, conversational style of writing succeeds in putting the reader on the ground occupied by both the Confederate and Union forces before, during and after Pickett's and Pettigrew's famous assault on Meade's Second Corps. Interspersed with humor and down-to-earth observations concerning battlefield conditions, the author conscientiously describes all aspects of the battle, from massing of the assault columns and pre-assault artillery barrage to the last shots and the flight of the surviving rebels back to the safety of their lines. Having visited Gettysburg several years ago (my chief interest then being Joshua Chamberlain's heroic defense of Little Round Top on the battle's second day), this superb volume makes me want to go again.
Extremely detailed, excellently told. October 29, 1998
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Having been a Civil W buff for years, and having read many of the more common titles dealing with Gettysburg in particular I found this to be the most detailed book I have read. Opinions are expressed, and backed with explanations, yet never placing blame. After having read this book, if you had been there, even knowing what you do today and that the charge was going to be a tragic failure, agreeing with Longstreet that, "no 15,000 men ever lived could break that line", you would still have giving the orders to make the charge.
Great For History Papers March 25, 1997
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
In a world largely barren of comprehensible worthwhile Civil War books, Stewart's masterpiece stands among the legends in this field. Material on Pickett's Charge is difficult to find and when you can find most of your pertinant information under one volume, obviously the author has done something right. I would recommend this for any Civil War book collector, or any high school/college/graduate student wishing to write a first class paper. This book is a must as a source.
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