'Stand to It and Give Them Hell': Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced It From Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863

摘要

Many say the three-day Battle of Gettysburg was decided on July 2, 1863, even though the fighting didn't end until the following evening. Rather than provide another chronological account of the events of July 2, John Michael Priest has opted to create an array of battlefield snapshots taken at specific times and places and involving individual units and men of the contending armies. This unconventional narrative strategy of jumping from one location to another makes the flow of the overall engagement hard to follow, but it brings the fighting down to the level of regiment against regiment, company against company, man against man.