Gettysburg S Peach Orchard

Author : James A. Hessler,Britt C. Isenberg
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611214567

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Gettysburg's Peach Orchard by James A. Hessler,Britt C. Isenberg Pdf

A “fascinating illumination of little-known accounts and personalities” by two experts on the Battle of Gettysburg (Civil War News). The historiography of Gettysburg’s second day is usually dominated by the Union’s successful defense of Little Round Top—but the day’s most influential action occurred nearly one mile west along the Emmitsburg Road, in farmer Joseph Sherfy’s peach orchard. This is the first full-length study of this pivotal action. On July 2, 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee ordered skeptical subordinate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet to launch a massive assault against the Union left flank. The offensive was intended to seize the Peach Orchard and surrounding ground for use as an artillery position to support the ongoing attack. However, Union Maj. Gen. Daniel Sickles, a scheming former congressman from New York, misinterpreted his orders and occupied the orchard first. What followed was some of Gettysburg’s bloodiest and most controversial fighting. General Sickles’s questionable advance forced Longstreet’s artillery and infantry to fight for every inch of ground to Cemetery Ridge. The Confederate attack crushed the Peach Orchard salient and other parts of the Union line, threatening the left flank of Maj. Gen. George Meade’s army. The command decisions made in and around the Sherfy property influenced actions on every part of the battlefield. The occupation of the high ground at the Peach Orchard helped General Lee rationalize ordering the tragic July 3 assault known as Pickett’s Charge. This richly detailed study is based on scores of primary accounts and a deep understanding of the terrain. The authors, both Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guides, combine the military aspects of the fighting with human interest stories, in a balanced treatment of the bloody attack and defense of Gettysburg’s Peach Orchard.

Author : Major John Bigelow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1839746831

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The Peach Orchard Gettysburg July 2 1863 by Major John Bigelow Pdf

Author : John Bigelow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:$B69509

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The Peach Orchard by John Bigelow Pdf

The Peach Orchard, Gettysburg, July 2, L863 by John Bigelow, first published in 1910, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Author : John Bigelow
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1293816434

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The Peach Orchard by John Bigelow Pdf

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Author : Dr John Bigelow, Jr.
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 142 pages
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Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1298501075

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The Peach Orchard, Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 by Dr John Bigelow, Jr. Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : John Bigelow, Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
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Release : 2015-02-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1294935674

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The Peach Orchard by John Bigelow, Jr. Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : JOHN. BIGELOW
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033039306

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PEACH ORCHARD GETTYSBURG JULY 2, 1863 by JOHN. BIGELOW Pdf

Author : John Bigelow
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230431829

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The Peach Orchard; Gettysburg, July 2, L863 by John Bigelow Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... map no. 6 relief map included in Report to Secretary of War of Gettysburg National Park Commission Sept. 7, 1910. showing Deep Black Line: Proposed Hunt Avenue, located in the rear of Cemetery Hill, where no Batteries were "in position" and far from where the Reserve Artillery was parked, (vide Commission's Report, Sept. 7, 1910.) Dotted Line: Granite School House Road along which the Reserve Artillery was parked. General Tyler, Commanding Artillery Reserves had lis Headquarters on the Taneytown Road, across ft on where the Granite School House Road enters it, vide Map 7. Light Colored Line: Trostle Lane an Exclusively Artillery Battle Avenue, now misnamed United States Avenue, which should be changed to Hunt Avenue in order to suitably honor the Artillery Corpr. The name of "McGilvery Avenue," instead tf United States Avenue, is only waived to honor the Artillery Corps and its Chief, General Hunt. Colonel McGilvery, by his Second Line of Artillery, between 6 and 7:15 P. M. July 2,1863, without Infantry support, undoubtedly rendered great service in saving General Meade's line of battle After The Third Corps had left the field. relief map of the gettysburg battlefield made by the united states commission co L.john P.nicholson chairman lt. col. E.B. cope engineer (with enclosures) refusing to grant the request, contained in your

Author : John Bigelow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1331176093

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The Peach Orchard Gettysburg July 2, 1863 by John Bigelow Pdf

Excerpt from The Peach Orchard Gettysburg July 2, 1863: Explained by Official Reports and Maps The Peach Orchard is located at the junction of the Emmetsburg and the Wheatfield (or Millertown) roads, and is on a hill or high knoll, with Big and Little Round Tops about a mile on its left and rear. Cemetery Hill is about two miles on its right and rear and two miles on the right of the Round Tops. A low ridge, of gentle inclination on either side, extends over half the distance from Cemetery Hill toward the Round Tops. For the balance of the distance the ridge flattens out into rocky, wooded, low land and is commanded by the elevation at the Peach Orchard in its front. The Peach Orchard Knoll is circled on its southerly and westerly sides by a wooded ridge(1600 yards distant on the south and 700 yards on the west), which was occupied by the Confederate artillery and infantry on July 2nd, 1863. Map one(1) shows the position occupied by the 3rd Corps from the Round Tops to the front of the 2nd Corps on Cemetery Ridge, when the battle opened, and in detail, the regiments (Graham 1st Brig., 1st Div., 3rd Corps) and batteries (Seeley's, Randolph's, Ames', Thompson's, Hart's, Clarke's, Phillips', Bigelow's) at the Peach Orchard. Gen. Humphries Division (2nd Div. 3rd Corps) connected on the right of Graham's Brigade and extended along the Emmetsburg road, towards Gettysburg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Gary Schreckengost
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153039886X

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Defense of the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg by Gary Schreckengost Pdf

The battle of Gettysburg was considered to be the turning point of the War of the Southern Rebellion not necessarily because the Federal Army of the Potomac won, but because it did not lose. One of the most important phases of the battle was fought on July 2, 1863, at a place they called "the Peach Orchard." Here elements of Maj. Gen. Daniel Sickes's III U.S. Corps fought to deprive the rebels of high ground which would have allowed the rebels to shoot enfilading artillery fire into the left flank of Maj. Gen. Winfield Hancock's II U.S. Corps on Cemetery Ridge, unhinging the entire line. Brig. Gen. Charles Graham's brigade of Sickles's corps was placed in the center of this salient and the 114th Pennsylvania, (Collis's Philadelphia Zouaves), was in the center of Graham's brigade. This is the historically accurate yet fictitious story about John Tricker and his brother, Alfred, who were actual members of Company B, 114th Pennsylvania. Read about how and why they joined Collis's Zouaves and what the fighting was like for them on that fateful day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863.

Author : Ralph Siegel,Mike Vallone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578771993

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Peach Orchard by Ralph Siegel,Mike Vallone Pdf

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Author : James A. Hessler
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611210453

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Sickles at Gettysburg by James A. Hessler Pdf

“Sickles is as dividing a figure in Civil War history as there is. In his masterful work . . . Hessler . . . puts him out there with all his wrinkles” (Confederate Book Review). Winner of the Robert E. Lee Civil War Roundtable of Central New Jersey’s Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award Winner of the Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable’s Distinguished Book Award By licensed battlefield guide James Hessler, this is the most deeply-researched, full-length biography to appear on this remarkable American icon. No individual who fought at Gettysburg was more controversial, both personally and professionally, than Major General Daniel E. Sickles. By 1863, Sickles was notorious as a disgraced former Congressman who murdered his wife’s lover on the streets of Washington and used America’s first temporary insanity defense to escape justice. With his political career in ruins, Sickles used his connections with President Lincoln to obtain a prominent command in the Army of the Potomac’s 3rd Corps—despite having no military experience. At Gettysburg, he openly disobeyed orders in one of the most controversial decisions in military history. Hessler’s critically acclaimed biography is a balanced and entertaining account of Sickles colorful life. Civil War enthusiasts who want to understand General Sickles’ scandalous life, Gettysburg’s battlefield strategies, the in-fighting within the Army of the Potomac, and the development of today’s National Park will find Sickles at Gettysburg a must-read. “The few other Sickles biographies available will now take a back seat to Hessler’s powerful and evocative study of the man, the general, and the legacy of the Gettysburg battlefield that old Dan left America. I highly recommend this book.”—J. David Petruzzi, coauthor of Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg

Author : Tillie Pierce Alleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001198954

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At Gettysburg by Tillie Pierce Alleman Pdf

A first-hand account of the Battle of Gettysburg from a 15-year old girl who was on a farm behind Union lines, later used as a field hospital.

Author : John Bigelow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
ISBN : LCCN:84256837

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The Peach Orchard, Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 by John Bigelow Pdf

Author : James M. McPherson
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760347768

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Hallowed Ground by James M. McPherson Pdf

In this fully illustrated edition of "Hallowed Ground," James M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Battle Cry of Freedom," and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world, walks readers through the Gettysburg battlefield-the site of the most consequential battle of the Civil War.