num_pages: 183
description: Whether at home by the fireside or standing on the battlefield, the reader will appreciate this unique report of the Battle of Gettysburg. The narra- tion, which includes personal accounts, diaries, letters and memoirs, pro- vides intimate insights which convey the psychological atmosphere of the moment. Over one hundred fifty photographs of soldiers of all ranks aid the reader in identifying individual participants. Numerous maps bring together the complicated pieces that make up the entire three-day puzzle. The action is broken down into stages outlining the events which led 160,000 to clash at Gettysburg. Forty thousand fell at Gettysburg. Readers will relate to the experience of the solitary soldier as they stand where those soldiers stood. They can imag- ine eight hundred men lying dead or wounded in the Valley of Death, or two hundred seventy lying near the 20th Maine monument. Fathers, broth- ers, sons, and lovers fought and died there; they were men with names and faces, personalities and passions, who shed their blood on the field of battle. A resident of Pennsylvania since 1973, JoAnna M. McDonald has visited Civil War battle sites all her life. Her interest led her to the fields of research and photography. While a student at Dickinson College and Shippensburg Uni- versity, she was an invited student of Professor Jay Luvaas at the War Col- lege in Carlisle.
language: English
title: The World Will Long Remember: A Guide to the Battle of Gettysburg
titlecomplete: The World Will Long Remember: A Guide to the Battle of Gettysburg
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 4
publisher: White Mane Pub