Saber and Scapegoat: J.E.B. Stuart and the Gettysburg Convention

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Stackpole Books, 2001 - 256 strani
The major facts of the Gettysburg campaign and battle are well known, but controversies about its outcome abound even today. No issue is more contested than that of the whereabouts of the dashing cavalryman, Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. Author Mark Nesbitt gives a detailed reconstruction of Stuart's actions during the campaign and presents the case that Stuart was not at fault for the loss: He was following orders to the best of his ability. The blame surrounding Stuart only surfaced after the war when, in an attempt to exonerate Lee, some veterans vilified Stuart unfairly. Unfortunately for the great cavalryman, that culpability has stuck. Nesbitt's findings challenge generations of Gettysburg historiography and are certain to fuel the controversy for years to come.
 

Vsebina

Introduction
xv
PRELUDE
1
Schooling of the Trooper
3
Civil War
15
GETTYSBURG
41
Raiding on a Grand Scale
43
Orders
57
Around the Yankees Again
75
The Third of July
95
Covering the Withdrawal
107
THE CONTROVERSY
121
Stuart under Attack
123
Mosby Parries
145
Marshalls Epitaph
173
Postmortem
181
Avtorske pravice

To Gettysburg
85

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Pogosti izrazi in povedi

Priljubljeni odlomki

Stran 13 - You may dispose of me very easily, — I am nearly disposed of now ; but this question is still to be settled, — this negro question I mean ; the end of that is not yet.
Stran 20 - He is a rare man, wonderfully endowed by nature with the qualities necessary for an officer of light cavalry. Calm, firm, acute, active, and enterprising, I know no one more competent than he to estimate the occurrences before him at their true value.

O avtorju (2001)

Mark Nesbitt is the author of the popular Ghosts of Gettysburg, a six-volume series that received the National Paranormal Award in 2004. Formerly a National Park Service ranger and then a battlefield guide, he has lived in Gettysburg since 1971.

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