Gettysburg

by Stephen W. Sears

  23. Edward P. Villum, Jonathan Letterman reports, OR 27.1:27, 197; Gerald A. Patterson, Debris of Battle: The Wounded of Gettysburg (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1997), 57, 107–8, 171; Mary McAllister memoir, Adams County Historical Society; Sarah M. Broadhead, Diary of a Lady of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (Hershey, Pa.: Hawbaker, 1990); Albertus McCreary, “Gettysburg: A Boy’s Experience of the Battle,” McClure’s Magazine, 33 (July 1909).

  24. Bennett, Days of “Uncertainty and Dread,” 87–90; Kathleen Georg Harrison, “This Grand National Enterprise,” Gettysburg National Military Park.

  25. Revised Report of the Select Committee Relative to the Soldiers’ National Cemetery (1865; reprint Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1988), 149; Gregory A. Coco, Wasted Valor: The Confederate Dead at Gettysburg (Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1990), 41. The interment at Gettysburg was not completed until March 1864, and included dead from other phases of the campaign.

  26. Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America, 23–25; Wills to Lincoln, Nov. 2, Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress; Meade to his wife, Sept. 16, Meade, Life and Letters, 2:149.

  27. Nov. 19, Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, 113; Everett to Lincoln, Nov. 20, Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress.

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  Bibliography

  This Bibliography selectively lists printed sources of general interest to the study of the Gettysburg campaign and what led up to it. Numerous additional sources of narrower focus, manuscript and printed, are cited in full in the Notes.

  Abbott, Henry L. Fallen Leaves: The Civil War Letters of Major Henry Livermore Abbott:. Robert Garth Scott, ed. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991.

  Alexander, Edward Porter. Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander. Gary W. Gallagher, ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

  Alexander, Edward Porter. Military Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative. New York: Scribner’s, 1907.

  Alexander, Edward Porter. “The Great Charge and Artillery Fighting at Gettysburg,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 3:357–68.

  Alexander, Ted. “‘A Regular Slave Hunt’: The Army of Northern Virginia and Black Civilians in the Gettysburg Campaign,” North & South, 4:7 (2001), 82–89.

  Alexander, Ted. “Ten Days in July: The Pursuit to the Potomac,” North & South, 2:6 (1999), 10–34.

  Annals of the War, Written by Leading Participants North and South. A. K. McClure, ed. Philadelphia: Times Publishing, 1879.

  Bandy, Ken, and Florence Freeland, eds. The Gettysburg Papers. Dayton: Morningside House, 1986.

  Bates, Samuel P. The Battle of Gettysburg. Philadelphia: T. H. Davis, 1875.

  Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, eds. 4 vols. New York: Century, 1887–88.

  Bauer, Daniel. “Did a Food Shortage Force Lee to Fight?” Columbiad, 1:4 (1998), 57–74.

  Bennett, Brian A. “The Supreme Event in Its Existence: The 140th New York on Little Round Top,” Gettysburg Magazine, 3 (1990), 16–25.

  Bennett, Gerald R. Days of “Uncertainty and Dread”: The Ordeal Endured by the Citizens at Gettysburg. Littlestown, Pa., 1994.

  Blackford, W. W. War Years with Jeb Stuart. New York: Scribner’s, 1945.

  Boritt, Gabor S., ed. The Gettysburg Nobody Knows. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

  Bowden, Scott, and Bill Ward. Last Chance for Victory: Robert E. Lee and the Gettysburg Campaign. Conshohocken, Pa.: Savas Publishing, 2001.

  Brennan, Patrick. “Thunder on the Plains of Brandy,” Parts I and II, North & South, 5:3 (2002), 14–34; 5:4 (2002), 32–51.

  Brown, Campbell. Campbell Brown’s Civil War: With Ewell and the Army of Northern Virginia. Terry L. Jones, ed. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

  Brown, E. R. The Twenty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865. Monticello, Ind., 1899.

  Brown, Kent Masterson. “A Golden Bridge: Lee’s Williamsport Defense Lines and His Escape Across the Potomac,” North & South, 2:6 (1999), 56–65.

  Busey, John W., and David G. Martin. Regimental Strengths and Losses at Gettysburg. Hightstown, N.J.: Longstreet House, 1994.

  Campbell, Eric. “Baptism of Fire: The Ninth Massachusetts Battery at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863,” Gettysburg Magazine, 5 (1991), 47–77.

  Campbell, Eric. “Caldwell Clears the Wheatfield,” Gettysburg Magazine, 3 (1990), 27–50.

  Carmichael, Peter S. “‘Every Map of the Field Cries Out about It’: The Failure of Confederate Artillery at Pickett’s Charge,” Gallagher, ed., Three Days at Gettysburg, 270–83.

  Christ, Elwood W. The Struggle for the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg, July 2nd and 3rd, 1863. Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1994.

  Clark, Walter, ed. Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War of 1861–65. 5 vols. Raleigh: State of North Carolina, 1901.

  Cleaves, Freeman. Meade of Gettysburg. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960.

  Coddington, Edwin B. The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command. Rev. ed. Dayton: Morningside House, 1979.

  Colt, Margaretta Barton. Defend the Valley: A Shenandoah Family in the Civil War. New York: Orion Books, 1994.

  Confederate Veteran. 40 vols. Nashville, 1893–1932.

  Connelly, Thomas Lawrence, and Archer Jones. The Politics of Command: Factions and Ideas in Confederate Strategy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973.

  Cooksey, Paul Clark. “They Died as if on Dress Parade: The Annihilation of Iverson’s Brigade at Gettysburg and the Battle of Oak Ridge,” Gettysburg Magazine, 20(1998), 89–112.

  Cozzens, Peter, ed. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 5. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

  Davis, Jefferson. The Papers of Jefferson Davis. Lynda Lasswell Crist, Mary Seaton Dix, and Kenneth H. Williams, eds. Vol. 9. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.

  Dawes, Rufus R. Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers. Marietta, Ohio, 1890.

  De Trobriand, Régis. Four Years with the Army of the Potomac. Boston: Ticknor, 1889.

  Desjardin, Thomas A. Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign. Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1995.

  Dodge, Theodore A. On Campaign with the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Journal of Theodore Ayrault Dodge. Stephen W. Sears, ed. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001.

  Donaldson, Francis A. Inside the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Experience of Captain Francis Adams Donaldson. J. Gregory Acken, ed. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1998.

  Doubleday, Abner. Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. New York: Scribner’s, 1882.

  Early, Jubal A. Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1912.

  Fishel, Edwin C. The Secret War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

  Fiske, Samuel W. Mr. Dunn Browne’s Experiences in the War: The Civil War Letters of Samuel W. Fiske. Stephen W. Sears, ed. New York: Fordham University Press, 1998.

  Fox, William F., ed. New York at Gettysburg. 3 vols. Albany: J. B. Lyon, 1902.

  Frassanito, William A. Early Photography at Gettysburg. Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1995.

  Frassanito, William A. Gettysburg: A Journey in Time. New York: Scribner’s, 1975.

  Freeman, Douglas Southall. Lee’s Lieutenants: A Study in Command. 3 vols. New York: Scribner’s, 1942–44.

  Freeman, Douglas Southall. R. E. Lee: A Biography. 4 vols. New York: Scribner’s, 1934–35.

  Fremantle, Arthur J. L. Three Months in the Southern States: April–June 1863 (1864). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.

  Gallagher, Gary W. “Confederate Corps Leadership on the First Day at Gettysburg: A. P. Hill and Richard S. Ewell in a Difficult Debut,” Gallagher, ed., Three Days at Gettysburg, 25–
43.

  Gallagher, Gary W. “‘If the Enemy Is There, We Must Attack Him’: R. E. Lee and the Second Day at Gettysburg,” Gallagher, ed., Three Days at Gettysburg, 109–29.

  Gallagher, Gary W. “Lee’s Army Has Not Lost Any of Its Prestige,” Gallagher, ed., The Third Day at Gettysburg & Beyond, 1–22.

  Gallagher, Gary W., ed. Lee the Soldier. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

  Gallagher, Gary W., ed. The Third Day at Gettysburg & Beyond. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

  Gallagher, Gary W., ed. Three Days at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999.

  Gallman, J. Matthew, with Susan Baker, “Gettysburg’s Gettysburg: What the Battle Did to the Borough,” Boritt, ed., The Gettysburg Nobody Knows, 144–74.

  Gambone, A. M. Hancock at Gettysburg … and Beyond. Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1997.

  Gettysburg Discussion Group: http://www.gdg.org

  Gettysburg Magazine. Dayton: Morningside House, 1989–.

  Gibbon, John. Personal Recollections of the Civil War. New York: Putnam’s, 1928.

  Gordon, John B. Reminiscences of the Civil War. New York: Scribner’s, 1903.

  Gottfried, Bradley M. Roads to Gettysburg: Lee’s Invasion of the North, 1863. Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Books, 2001.

  Gottfried, Bradley M. “Wright’s Charge on July 2, 1863: Piercing the Union Line or Inflated Glory?” Gettysburg Magazine, 17 (1997), 70–82.

  Gray, John Chipman, and John Codman Ropes. War Letters, 1862–1865. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927.

  Greene, A. Wilson. “‘A Step All-Important and Essential to Victory’: Henry W. Slocum and the Twelfth Corps on July 1–2, 1863,” Gallagher, ed., Three Days at Gettysburg, 169–203.

  Greene, A. Wilson. “From Gettysburg to Falling Waters: Meade’s Pursuit of Lee,” Gallagher, ed., Third Day at Gettysburg & Beyond, 161–94.

  Griffin, D. Massy. “Rodes on Oak Hill: A Study of Rodes’ Division on the First Day of Gettysburg,” Gettysburg Magazine, 4 (1991), 33–48.

  Harrison, Kathleen Georg. “‘Our Principal Loss Was in This Place’: Action at the Slaughter Pen and at the South End of Houck’s Ridge,” Gettysburg Magazine, 1 (1989), 45–69.

  Harrison, Kathleen Georg, and John W. Busey. Nothing But Glory: Pickett’s Division at Gettysburg. Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1993.

  Hartwig, D. Scott. “The 11th Army Corps on July 1, 1863,” Gettysburg Magazine, 2 (1990), 33–49.

  Hartwig, D. Scott. “Guts and Good Leadership: The Action at the Railroad Cut, July 1, 1863,” Gettysburg Magazine, 1 (1989), 5–14.

  Hartwig, D. Scott. “It Struck Horror to Us All,” Gettysburg Magazine, 4 (1991), 89–100.

  Hartwig, D. Scott. “‘No Troops on the Field Had Done Better’: John C. Caldwell’s Division in the Wheatfield, July 2, 1863,” Gallagher, ed., Three Days at Gettysburg, 204–28.

  Haskell, Frank A. Haskell of Gettysburg: His Life and Civil War Papers. Frank L. Byrne and Andrew T. Weaver, eds. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1989.

  Hassler, Warren W., Jr. Crisis at the Crossroads: The First Day at Gettysburg. Montgomery: University of Alabama Press, 1970.

  Hay, John. Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay. Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger, eds. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.

  Hebert, Walter H. Fighting Joe Hooker. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1944.

  Herdegen, Lance J., and J. K. Beaudot. In the Bloody Railroad Cut at Gettysburg. Dayton: Morningside House, 1990.

  Hess, Earl J. Pickett’s Charge— The Last Attack at Gettysburg. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

  Hoke, Jacob. The Great Invasion of 1863: or, General Lee in Pennsylvania. Dayton: W.J. Shuey, 1887.

  Hood, J. B. Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies. New Orleans, 1880.

  Hotchkiss, Jedediah. Make Me a Map of the Valley: The Civil War Journal of Stonewall Jackson’s Topographer. Archie P. McDonald, ed. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1973.

  Howard, Oliver Otis. Autobiography. 2 vols. New York: Baker and Taylor, 1907.

  Hunt, Henry J. “The First Day at Gettysburg,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 3:255–84.

  Hunt, Henry J. “The Second Day at Gettysburg,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 3:290–313.

  Hunt, Henry J. “The Third Day at Gettysburg,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 3:369–85.

  Imboden, John D. “The Confederate Retreat from Gettysburg,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 3:420–29.

  Imhof, John D. Gettysburg: Day Two: A Study in Maps. Baltimore: Butternut & Blue, 1999.

  Jacobs, Michael. Notes on the Rebel Invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania and the Battle of Gettysburg. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1864.

  Jones, J. B. A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the Confederate States Capital. Howard Swiggett, ed. 2 vols. New York: Old Hickory Bookshop, 1935.

  Krick, Robert K. The Gettysburg Death Roster: The Confederate Dead at Gettysburg. 3rd ed. rev. Dayton: Morningside House, 1993.

  Krick, Robert K. “Three Confederate Disasters on Oak Ridge: Failures of Brigade Leadership on the First Day at Gettysburg,” Gallagher, ed., Three Days at Gettysburg, 72–106.

  Kross, Gary M. “‘I Do Not Believe That Pickett’s Division Would Have Reached Our Line’: Henry J. Hunt and the Union Artillery on July 3, 1863,” Gallagher, ed., Three Days at Gettysburg, 284–305.

  Ladd, David L., and Audrey J. Ladd, eds. The Bachelder Papers: Gettysburg in Their Own Words. 3 vols. Dayton: Morningside House, 1994.

  Lash, Gary G. “Brig. Gen. Henry Baxter’s Brigade at Gettysburg, July 1,” Gettysburg Magazine, 10 (1994), 6–27.

  Lash, Gary G. “The Philadelphia Brigade at Gettysburg,” Gettysburg Magazine, 7 (1992), 97–113.

  Law, E. M. “The Struggle for ‘Round Top,’” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 3:318–30.

  Lee, Elizabeth Blair. Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee. Virginia Jeans Laas, ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.

  Lee, Robert E. Lee’s Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A., to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America, 1862–1865. Douglas Southall Freeman and Grady McWhiney, eds. New York: Putnam’s, 1957.

  Lee, Robert E. The Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee. Clifford Dowdey and Louis H. Manarin, eds. New York: Bramhall House, 1961.

  Lincoln, Abraham. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Roy P. Basler, ed. 9 vols. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953–55. Supplement, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974.

  Long, A. L. Memoirs of Robert E. Lee. New York: J. M. Stoddart, 1886.

  Long, Roger. “General Orders No. 72, ‘By Command of Gen. R. E. Lee,’” Gettysburg Magazine, 7 (1992), 13–22.

  Longacre, Edward G. The Cavalry at Gettysburg: A Tactical Study of Mounted Operations During the Civil War’s Pivotal Campaign, 9 June–14 July 1863. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986.

  Longacre, Edward G. The Man Behind the Guns: A Biography of General Henry J. Hunt, Commander of Artillery, Army of the Potomac. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1977.

  Longstreet, James. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1896.

  Longstreet, James. “Lee in Pennsylvania,” Annals of the War, 414–46.

  Longstreet, James. “Lee’s Invasion of Pennsylvania,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 3:244–51.

  Longstreet, James. “Lee’s Right Wing at Gettysburg,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 3:339–54.

  Longstreet, James. “The Mistakes of Gettysburg,” Annals of the War, 619–33.

  Lyman, Theodore. Meade’s Headquarters, 1863–1865: Letters of Colonel Theodore Lyman from the Wilderness to Appomattox. George R. Agassiz, ed. Boston: Atlant
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  Marshall, Charles. An Aide-de-Camp of Lee. Frederick Maurice, ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1927.

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  McKim, Randolph H. A Soldier’s Recollections: Leaves from the Diary of a Young Confederate. New York: Longmans, Green, 1910.

  McLaws, Lafayette. A Soldier’s General: The Civil War Letters of Major General Lafayette McLaws. John C. Oeffinger, ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

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  Meade, George Gordon, II. With Meade at Gettysburg. Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1930.

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  Nichols, Edward J. Toward Gettysburg: A Biography of General John F. Reynolds. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1958.

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