Pickett's Charge: The Untold Story
Pickett's Charge: The Untold Story took more than four years to research and write. I was at the Angle and looked across the field and I knew a lot about Lee and the Confederate charge. My knowledge of the Union defenders was minimal. The previous books on Pickett's Charge detailed the Confederate planning and execution of the engagement. The Union defense usually received little attention. My book is 90 percent or more on the Union defenders, especially the Philadelphia Brigade. I spend almost countless hours going through the records at Gettysburg National Park. I used the ORs and went to a number of historical societies.Barricade Books of Fort Lee, New Jersey, did a wonderful job with the design and publishing of the book. Also, the book contains photographs from the famous J. Howard Wert Gettysburg Collection, some made public for the first time.