6/26/2023 0 Comments Gettysburg by Allen C. Guelzo![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Guelzo faults Lee’s uncoordinated command style for the failure to follow up the attack on Cemetery Hill on July 2, and suggests that Jeb Stuart’s absence did not have the baneful effect attributed to it afterward. ![]() Richard Ewell to take Culp’s Hill on that first day. Hill, who had prematurely brought an end to the fighting on July 1 and, worse yet, for not pressing Lt. He is also not shy about offering his judgments. Abner Doubleday or John Gibbon are to be believed.īy having mastered the vast primary and secondary sources, and writing with clarity and force, Guelzo gives coherence to a story that, by its nature, is fraught with contradictions. For example, separate observers described Pickett’s Charge as a single line, two lines and perhaps even three lines or four, if Union Gens. Other facts are likewise subject to conflicting testimony. Precisely when events occurred is not known because synchronized time did not exist. William Faulkner famously wrote, “For every Southern boy fourteen years old…there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863.” In this masterful work, Allen Guelzo points out that the time of attack, like everything else we claim about the Battle of Gettysburg, was an approximation. America’s Civil War Book Review: Gettysburg- The Last Invasion Close ![]()
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