Overview
All students of the Civil War are indebted to Frank Haskell for his classic description of the battle of Gettysburg. A lieutenant on the staff of John Gibbon, Haskell stood at the focus of the Confederate assault on July 3, 1863. He wrote of the battle in a letter to his brother. When it came to light after the war it became and remains probably the most read and repeated account of Civil War combat written by a participant. It captures wholly the terrible fascination that the Civil War--and Gettysburg--holds for all Americans. Haskell wrote other letters (thirty-one in this collection) and attained the rank of colonel before he was killed at Cold Harbor on June 3, 1864.This 1989 paperback reprinting of the 1970 edition contains a new preface by Frank L. Byrne.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780873383868
- ISBN-10: 0873383869
- Publisher: Kent State University Press
- Publish Date: June 1989
- Dimensions: 8.99 x 5.93 x 0.75 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.97 pounds
- Page Count: 278
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