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Pickett's charge : a new look at Gettysburg's final attack / Phillip Thomas Tucker, PhD.

by Tucker, Phillip Thomas, 1953- author.

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New York : Skyhorse Publishing, [2016]

Pickett, George E. (George Edward), 1825-1875.

Confederate States of America. Army. Pickett's Division.

Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.

9781634507967 (hardback) :

xxix, 472 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Gettysburg Time Line: Leading up to Pickett's Charge -- Introduction -- Genesis of Pickett's Charge: Evolution of a Brilliant Tactical Plan -- The War's Greatest Artillery Bombardment -- Orchestrating the War's Most Magnificent Charge -- A Carefully Calculated Case of Going for Broke -- Running the Artillery Gauntlet -- The "Vortex of Fire" along the Emmitsburg Road -- Overrunning the Angle -- Capturing Additional Union Cannon -- Requiem for an American Tragedy -- Epilogue.

An "analysis of one of the most iconic and defining events in American history ... With the luxury of hindsight, historians have long denounced the folly of Lee's attack, but this work [posits] the tactical brilliance of a master plan that went awry. Special emphasis is placed on the common soldiers on both sides, especially the non-Virginia attackers outside of Pickett's Virginia Division"--Amazon.com.

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