THAT HOT, sunny afternoon, General Robert E. Lee sent 13,000 Confederate soldiers, led by Pickett's fresh division, into a grassy field soon to be spattered with their blood.
An edition of Lost triumph
(2005)
Lost triumph
Lee's real plan at Gettysburg-and why it failed
by Tom Carhart
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A bold new thesis in the study of the Civil War suggests Lee had a heretofore undiscovered strategy at Gettysburg that, if successful, could have changed the outcome of the war. Conventional wisdom has held that on the third day of the battle, Lee made one profoundly wrong decision. But there is much more to the story, which Tom Carhart addresses for the first time. With meticulous detail, Carhart revisits the historic battles Lee taught at West Point--the victories of Napoleon at Austerlitz, Frederick the Great at Leuthen, and Hannibal at Cannae--and reveals what they can tell us about Lee's real strategy. What Carhart finds: Lee's plan for a rear assault that, combined with Pickett's Charge, could have broken the Union forces in half. Only in the final hours of the battle was the attack reversed through the daring of an unproven young general--George Armstrong Custer.
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Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg--and Why It Failed
April 4, 2006, Berkley Trade
in English
0425207919 9780425207918
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Lost triumph: Lee's real plan at Gettysburg-and why it failed
2005, G.P. Putnam's Sons
in English
0399152490 9780399152498
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Lost triumph: Lee's real plan at Gettysburg-and why it failed
2005, RB Large Print
in English
1419356836 9781419356834
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-281) and index.
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