Pickett's charge
Subtitle: a new look at Gettysburg's final attack
By: Phillip Thomas Tucker, PhD
Publisher: SKYHORSE; Skyhorse
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9781634507967
Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Confederate States of America; Confederate States of America. Army. Pickett's Division
Description: An "analysis of one of the most iconic and defining events in American history ... With the luxury of hindsight, historians have long denounced the folly of Lee's attack, but this work [posits] the tactical brilliance of a master plan that went awry. Special emphasis is placed on the common soldiers on both sides, especially the non-Virginia attackers outside of Pickett's Virginia Division"--Amazon.com.
Notes: "A main selection of the History Book Club"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-455) and index.
Table of contents: title: Gettysburg time line: leading up to Pickett's charge; title: Genesis of Pickett's charge: evolution of a brilliant tactical plan; title: The war's greatest artillery bombardment; title: Orchestrating the war's most magnificent charge; title: A carefully calculated case of going for broke; title: Running the artillery gauntlet; title: The "vortex of fire" along the Emmitsburg Road; title: Overrunning the angle; title: Capturing additional Union cannon; title: Requiem for an American tragedy.