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Author : John Bigelow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Gettysburg (Pa.)
ISBN : WISC:89065894008
Author : James A. Hessler,Britt C. Isenberg
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611214567
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 : John Bigelow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
ISBN : LCCN:84256837
Author : JOHN. BIGELOW
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033039306
Author : John Bigelow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:$B69509
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 : Theclassics.Us
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230431829
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 : 144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Gettysburg (Pa.)
ISBN : UOM:39015011567347
Author : John Bigelow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1331176093
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 : John Bigelow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Gettysburg (Pa.)
ISBN : OCLC:1434411482
Author : David Schultz,Scott L. Mingus
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611210750
“Emphasize[s] the role of Winfield Scott Hancock . . . [and] the Second Corps in plugging the gap and saving the day for the Union.” —Gettysburg Magazine On the afternoon of July 2, 1863, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet struck the Union left flank with a massive blow that collapsed Dan Sickles’ advanced position in the Peach Orchard and rolled northward, tearing open a large gap in the center of the Federal line on Cemetery Ridge. Fresh Confederates from A. P. Hill’s Corps advanced toward the mile-wide breach, where Southern success would split the Army of the Potomac in two. The fate of the Battle of Gettysburg hung in the balance. Despite the importance of the position, surprisingly few Union troops were available to defend Cemetery Ridge. Major General Winfield S. Hancock’s veteran Second Corps had been whittled from three divisions to less than one after Gibbon’s division was sucked into earlier fighting and Caldwell’s command was shattered in the Wheatfield. With little time and few men, Hancock determined to plug the yawning gap. Reprising Horatio at the Bridge, the gallant commander cobbled together various commands and refused to yield the precious acres in Plum Run ravine. The swirling seesaw fighting lasted for hours and included hand-to-hand combat and personal heroics of which legends are made. The Second Day at Gettysburg expands on David Shultz and David Wieck’s critically acclaimed earlier work The Battle Between the Farm Lanes. This completely revised and expanded study, which includes new photographs, original maps, and a self-guided tour of the fighting, is grounded in extensive research and unmatched personal knowledge of the terrain.
Author : Gary Schreckengost
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153039886X
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 : James A. Hessler
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611210453
“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 : Gary Schreckengost
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1615469400
The battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War, if not the turning point, not because the Federal Army of the Potomac won the battle, but because it simply did not lose; because General Robert E. Lee, commander of the famous Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, did not win. Make no mistake about it, Lee went north into Pennsylvania to destroy President Lincoln's main army of operations, the Army of the Potomac, and then swing south to surround Washington, D.C., the Federal capital, hoping it would lead to a negotiated settlement that finally recognized Southern independence from the United States. In this, Lee came close. I have created a historically accurate yet fictitious character around John Tricker, an actual member of the famous 114th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Collis's Philadelphia Zouaves) to help tell a small but significant part of the story of this fateful campaign. The Philadelphia Zouaves, along with several other Federal regiments, held the very center of the Union line at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, at a place that we now famously call "The Peach Orchard." Although John Tricker and his brother, Alfred, were actual members of Company B, 114th Pennsylvania, I know little to nothing about them. I don't think anyone today does. I have simply combined my historical knowledge with my own combat experiences in Fallujah, Iraq, as an Iraqi Army advisor from 2005-06, to try to bring the desperate fight for the Peach Orchard Salient more to life for the average reader by using Sergeant John Tricker as a vehicle. I hope you enjoy the book and are inspired to read more about the Gettysburg Campaign and the Civil War in general.
Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612001807
There is “never a dull moment” in this “excellent account” of an overlooked Confederate triumph during the Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg (San Francisco Book Review). While many Civil War buffs celebrate Picket’s Charge as the climactic moment of the Battle of Gettysburg, the Confederate Army’s true high point had come the afternoon before. When Longstreet’s corps triumphantly entered the battle, the Federals just barely held on. The foremost Rebel spearhead on that second day of the battle was Brig. Gen. William Barksdale’s Mississippi brigade, which launched what one Union observer called the “grandest charge that was ever seen by mortal man.” On the second day of Gettysburg, the Federal left was not as vulnerable as Lee had envisioned, but had cooperated with Rebel wishes by extending its Third Corps into a salient. When Longstreet finally gave Barksdale the go-ahead, the Mississippians utterly crushed the peach orchard salient and continued marauding up to Cemetery Ridge. Hancock, Meade, and other Union generals had to gather men from four different corps to try to stem the onslaught. Barksdale himself was killed at the apex of his advance. Darkness, as well as Confederate exhaustion, finally ended the day’s fight as the shaken, depleted Federal units took stock. They had barely held on against the full ferocity of the Rebels on a day that would decide the fate of the nation.
Author : Timothy Orr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472854667
This work provides an authoritative illustrated examination of the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, analyzing both grand strategy, and the tactical decisions of Day Two and the ensuing combat. July 2, 1863 was the bloodiest and most complicated of the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg. On this day, the clash involved five divisions of Confederate infantry and their accompanying artillery battalions, as well as a cavalry skirmish at nearby Hunterstown. The bulk of the Union army engaged on the second day of fighting, including men from the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 11th and 12th Corps. Assisted by superb maps and 3D diagrams, this fascinating work describes the tactical play-by-play, the customary “who did what” of the battle. Among the famous actions covered are Hunterstown and Benner's Hill, Little Round Top, Devil's Den, the Rose Wheatfield, the Peach Orchard, and Culp's and Cemetery hills. The critical decisions taken on the second day are examined in detail, and why the commanders committed to them. Gettysburg was-first and foremost-a soldier's battle, full of raw emotion and high drama, and this work also examines the experience of combat as witnessed by the rank and file, bringing this to life in stunning battlescene artworks and primary accounts from common soldiers.