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Confrontation at Gettysburg: A Nation Saved, a Cause Lost (Civil War Sesquicentennial)
Confrontation at Gettysburg A Nation Saved a Cause Lost - Civil War Sesquicentennial Author:John Hoptak Gettysburg is America's most famous battle. Fought on the first three days of July 1863, it was one of the largest and by far the bloodiest of the Civil War. Yet the importance of this great conflagration cannot be measured in numbers alone, for Gettysburg also represented a pivotal moment in the war. The battle ended General Robert E. Lee's sec... more »ond invasion of Union soil, and never again did a Confederate army reach that far north. Join historian John Hoptak as he narrates the fierce action between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac at such places as McPherson's Ridge, the Railroad Cut, the Wheatfield, the Peach Orchard, Devil's Den, Little Round Top and on Culp's and Cemetery Hills.Other books in the Civil War Sesquicentennial Series include:Battle of Cabin Creek ? Yorktown's Civil War Siege ? Civil War Baton Rouge ? The Battle of Brice s Crossroads ? The Battle of Antietam ? The Battle of Franklin ? The Chancellorsville Campaign ? The Battle of South Mountain ? Stonewall Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign ? Charleston Under Siege ? Andersonville Civil War Prison ? The Civil War at Perryville ? The Battle of Okolona ? Fort Davidson and the Battle of Pilot Knobb ? The Two Civil War Battles of Newtonia ? The Battle of Port Royal ? The Confederacy's Secret Weapon ? Lee in the Lowcountry ? Defending South Carolina's Coast ? Facing Sherman in South Carolina ? The Battle of Brandy Station ? The Battle of Cedar Creek ? The Battle of Fredericksburg ? The Battle of Piedmont ? The Battle of New Market Heights ? Big Bethel ? The Battle of Mine Creek ? West Virginia in the Civil War ? Civil War Atlanta ? The Battle of Westport ? The Union is Dissolved ? The Battle of Fort Donelson« less