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"My Brigade Suffered Severely & Behaved Well" - Longstreet’S Attack Of July 2nd And Its Greater Memory, Jesse R. Campana
"My Brigade Suffered Severely & Behaved Well" - Longstreet’S Attack Of July 2nd And Its Greater Memory, Jesse R. Campana
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An analytical study of the July 2nd, 1863 Confederate assault at Gettysburg both during and after the fighting.
Longstreet’S Attack From Seminary Ridge To The Rose Woods, Caitlin T. Connelly
Longstreet’S Attack From Seminary Ridge To The Rose Woods, Caitlin T. Connelly
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This is an overview of a theoretical tour at Gettysburg focusing on Longstreet’s attack on the second day from Seminary Ridge to the Rose Woods. The three tour stops are the Mississippi Monument on West Confederate Avenue, the Peach Orchard, and photos of dead Confederate soldiers in the Rose Woods. After a brief overview of the attack, the paper introduces several questions raised by the historical landscape concerning the sense of history it conveys, how well the landscape currently reflects the experiences of soldiers, what drove soldiers to fight, and how the landscape expresses its own changing meanings. The paper …