Decisions at Gettysburg : the nineteen critical decisions that defined the campaign / Matt Spruill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spruill, Matt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.

Command of troops--Case studies.

Command of troops.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Campaign and Battle of Gettysburg have inspired scrutiny from virtually every angle. Standing out amid the voluminous scholarship, this book is not merely one more narrative history of the events that transpired before, during, and after those three momentous July days in southern Pennsylvania. Rather, it focuses on and analyzes nineteen critical decisions by Union and Confederate commanders that determined the particular ways in which those events unfolded. Matt Spruill, a retired U.S. Army colonel who studied and taught at the U. S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylva

Contents:

Before the battle

Wednesday, July 1, 1863

Thursday, July 2, 1863

Friday, July 3, 1863, and afterward.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613098597

9781621902850

1621902854

9781283098595

1283098598

9781572337886

1572337885

OCLC:

721194568