Examines the Battle of Gettysburg through letters, journals, articles, and speeches from the people who lived through those days.

Imagine being fifteen years old, facing the bloodiest battle ever to take place on U.S. soil: the Battle of Gettysburg. In July 1863, this is exactly what happe

One hundred and fifty years after the Battle of Gettysburg, the words of the soldiers and onlookers present for those three fateful days still reverberate with

From the events that led to the clash at Gettysburg in July 1863 to the retreat of Robert E. Lee's defeated Confederates, Richard Wheeler uses the words of part

Charles Carleton Coffin (1823-1896) was an American war correspondent for the Boston Journal whose detailed, graphic accounts of the major battles of the Civil