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Mad Dan, Allen C. Guelzo
Mad Dan, Allen C. Guelzo
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
Did Daniel Sickles, the Union's most notorious general, save the day for the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg? That's exactly what he wanted you to believe.
A New Birth Of Freedom, Allen C. Guelzo
A New Birth Of Freedom, Allen C. Guelzo
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
The president of the United States had been more than usually agitated ever since the news of a major collision of the Union and Confederate armies around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, first flew along the telegraph wires to the War Department on July 1, 1863. For days, he was clouded with “sadness and despondency” until the message arrived, announcing a great victory for the Union. That was followed almost at once by news from Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles: another dispatch had come in, “communicating the fall of Vicksburg [Mississippi] on the fourth of July.” At once, Abraham Lincoln’s mood changed, …
Gettysburg College & The Battle Of Gettysburg: A Civil War Walking Tour, John M. Rudy '07
Gettysburg College & The Battle Of Gettysburg: A Civil War Walking Tour, John M. Rudy '07
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
Originally compiled by John Rudy as a student project in 2007 at Gettysburg College, this new, revised edition of the Civil War Walking Tour booklet guides a visitor on a truly unique campus tour. Visitors can walk among buildings from the war era and learn how they were pressed into service during and after the Battle of Gettysburg. Likewise, many college figures such as President Henry Baugher, John "Jack" Hopkins (janitor), and many students are part of this complex and heroic story of Pennsylvania College's story in July 1863.
George Meade’S Mixed Legacy, Allen C. Guelzo
George Meade’S Mixed Legacy, Allen C. Guelzo
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
George Gordon Meade was 47 years old the morning of June 28, 1863, when command of the Army of the Potomac was unceremoniously dumped into his lap by General in Chief Henry Hallcck, and there is no reason to doubt Meade's protest that the move rendered him the most surprised man in the entire Union Army. Meade had never wanted to be a soldier in the first place, much less take direction of an army that at that moment was facing perhaps its most daunting challenge. But compared to his immediate predecessors, Maj. Gens. Ambrose Burnside and Joseph Hooker, what …