Voices from Gettysburg Letters, papers, and memoirs from the greatest battle of the Civil War
Book - 2024
The voices of those who witnessed the Battle of Gettysburg and its aftermath with their own eyes - who saw the bloodshed, heard its din, trembled in its crash, struggled with its aftermath - are collected for the first time by Allen C. Guelzo, America's foremost Civil War scholar, in this moving and sobering oral history. This treasure trove of original documents - many never-before published - creates a uniquely personal, day-by-day eyewitness account of the monumental collision at Gettysburg, in the words of the commanders, soldiers, politicians, and civilians from both the North and the South who experienced firsthand the changing course of the Civil War.
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New York, NY :
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xxi, 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780806543383
- Author's Note
- Introduction: "The Waterloo of the Rebellion"
- The Situation, 1863
- • Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65 (Hartford, CT, 1866), Vol. 2
- • Alexander Robinson Boteler, "Stonewall Jackson in the Campaign of 1862," Southern Historical Society Papers 40 (September 1915)
- • James Longstreet, "Lee in Pennsylvania," Annals of the War Written by Leading Participants North and South (Philadelphia, 1879)
- • "Letter from Major-General Henry Heth, of A.P. Hill's Corps, A.N.V.," Southern Historical Society Papers 4 (September 1877)
- • Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis (June 10, 1863), in The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, DC, 1881-1901), Series 1, Vol. 27 (pt 3)
- The Armies
- • Richard Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War in the United States (New York, 1879)
- • John S. Robson, How a One-Legged Rebel Lives: Reminiscences of the Civil War (Durham, NC, 1898)
- • George H. Washburn, A Complete Military History and Record of the 108 th Regiment N.Y. Vols., from 1862 to 1894 (Rochester, NY, 1894)
- • Thomas W. Hyde, Following the Greek Cross, or Memories of the Sixth Army Corps (Boston, 1894)
- • Spencer Glasgow Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch (August 18, 1862), in A Confederate Surgeon's Letters to His Wife (New York, 1911)
- • Abner Ralph Small, The Road to Richmond: Civil War Memoirs of Major Abner R. Small of the Sixteenth Maine Volunteers, ed. H.A. Small (Berkeley, CA, 1939)
- • Mrs. Arabella M. Willson, Disaster, Struggle, Triumph: The Adventures of 1000 "Boys in Blue,"from August, 1862, until June, 1865 (Albany, NY, 1870)
- • John H. Rhodes, The History of Battery B, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery, in the War to Preserve the Union (Providence, RI, 1894)
- • A Gallant Captain of the Civil War: Being the Record of the Extraordinary Adventures of Frederick Otto Baron von Fritsch [68 th New York], ed. Joseph Tyler Butts (New York, 1902)
- • Robert K. Beecham, Gettysburg: The Pivotal Battle of the Civil War (Chicago, 1911)
- • "The Rifle and the Soldier," Journal of the Royal United Service Institution (1861)
- • George F. Noyes, The Bivouac and the Battle-Field; Or, Campaign Sketches in Virginia and Maryland (New York, 1863)
- The Commanders
- • Peter Wellington Alexander, "Robert E. Lee," Southern Literary Messenger (January 1863)
- • J. William Jones, Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee (New York, 1875)
- • Jefferson Davis, "Robert E. Lee," North American Review 150 (January 1890)
- • "Letter From Maj. Scheibert, of the Prussian Royal Engineers," Southern Historical Society Papers 5 (January-February 1878)
- • Isaac R. Trimble, "The Battle and Campaign of Gettysburg," Southern Historical Society Papers 26 (January-December 1898)
- • Moxley Sorrel, Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer (New York, 1905)
- • James Longstreet, "The Mistakes of Gettysburg," Annals of the War Written by Leading Participants North and South (Philadelphia, 1879)
- • Heros von Borcke, Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence (Philadelphia, 1867)
- • Richard Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War in the United States (New York, 1879)
- • Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant (New York, 1907)
- • George G. Meade, jnr., The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (New York, 1913), Vol. 2
- • George G. Meade Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- • "Testimony of Major-General Abner Doubleday" (March 1, 1864), in Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War at the Second Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress (Washington, DC, 1865)
- The First Moves-Brandy Station and Winchester
- • "Fight at Brandy Station" (June 10, 1863), The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, ed. Frank Moore (New York, 1864), Vol. 7
- • Randolph H. McKim, A Soldiers Recollections: Leaves from the Diary of a Young Confederate (New York, 1911)
- • Ruth Hairston Early, ed., Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early, C.S.A.: Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States (Philadelphia, 1912)
- • Thomas Benton Reed [9 th Louisiana], A Private in Gray (Camden, AR, 1905)
- • John Brown Gordon, Reminiscences of the Civil War (New York, 1903)
- • Louis Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier (Charlotte, NC, 1913)
- • Henry B. McClellan, The Life and Campaigns of Major-General J.E.B. Stuart: Commander of the Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia (Boston, 1885)
- • John W. Phillips, History of the Eighteenth Regiment of Cavalry, Pennsylvania Volunteers (New York, 1909)
- The March Up
- • "General Orders, No. 72" (June 21, 1863), The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, DC, 1881-1901), Series 1, Vol. 27 (pt 3)
- • "Jenkins's Raid into Pennsylvania," The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, ed. Frank Moore (New York, 1864), Vol. 7
- • Reverend Philip Schaff, "The Gettysburg Week," Scribner's Magazine (July 1894)
- • Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Notes of a Pianist (Philadelphia, 1881)
- • "The Union Cavalry Service" (July 15,1863), The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, ed. Frank Moore (New York, 1864), Vol. 7
- • "The Fight at Wrightsville," Philadelphia Inquirer (June 30, 1863)
- • "The Latest News!" Lancaster Examiner (July 1, 1863)
- • Charles Augustus Stevens, Berdan's United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865 (St. Paul, 1892)
- • "Pipe Creek Circular" (July 1, 1863), The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, DC, 1881-1901), Series 1, Vol. 27 (pt 1)
- • George G. Meade to Henry Wager Halleck (July 1, 1863, noon), The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, DC, 1881-901), Series 1, Vol. 27 (pt 1)
- The First Day
- • "Letter from Major-General Henry Heth, of A.P. Hill's Corps, A.N.V.," Southern Historical Society Papers 4 (September 1877)
- • Amasa Dana [8 th Illinois Cavalry] in Theodore W. Bean, "Who Fired the Opening Shots!" Philadelphia Weekly Times (February 2, 1878)
- • Charles Henry Veil to David McConaughy (April 7, 1864), MS-022: The Papers of David McConaughy, 1823-1902, Gettysburg College Special Collections
- • Alanson Henery Nelson [57 th Pennsylvania], The Battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg (Minneapolis, 1899)
- • Reverend Michael Colver, "Reminiscences of the Battle of Gettysburg," 1902 Spectrum, Gettysburg College Special Collections
- • William H. Harries, "The Iron Brigade in the First Day's Battle at Gettysburg" (October 8,1895), Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle: Papers Read Before the Minnesota Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 1892-1897, ed. Edward D. Neill (St. Paul, 1898)
- • Lieutenant-Colonel Rufus Dawes, Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers (Marietta, OH, 1890)
- • Orson Blair Curtis, History of the Twenty-Fourth Michigan of the Iron Brigade (Detroit, 1891)
- • Charles Carleton Coffin, "Memories of Gettysburg," Stories of Our Soldiers: War Reminiscences by "Carleton," and by Soldiers of New England (Boston, 1893)
- • Abner Ralph Small, The Sixteenth Maine Regiment in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 (Portland, ME, 1886)
- • Isaac R. Trimble, "The Battle and Campaign of Gettysburg," Southern Historical Society Papers 26 (January-December 1898)
- • Henry Eyster Jacobs, "Meteorology of the Battle: Notes by Rev. Dr. Jacobs," Gettysburg Star and Sentinel (August 11, 1885)
- The Second Day
- • Isaac Rusling Pennypacker, General Meade (New York 1901)
- • "The Battle of Gettysburg. Important Communication from an Eye Witness," New York Herald (March 12, 1864)
- • John Coxe, "At Gettysburg," Confederate Veteran 21 (September 1913), 433-434
- • "Seventeenth Maine Regiment," Maine at Gettysburg: Report of Maine Commissioners, ed. Charles Hamlin et al (Portland, ME, 1898)
- • "Absolution Under Fire. An Incident in the Irish Brigade at Gettysburg," Souvenir of the Re-union of the Blue and the Gray: On the Battlefield of Gettysburg, July 1, 2, 3, and 4, 1888, ed. John Tregaskis (New York, 1888)
- • Joshua L. Chamberlain, "Through Blood and Fire at Gettysburg," Hearst's Magazine 23 (June 1913)
- • "Nineteenth Maine Regiment," Maine at Gettysburg: Report of Maine Commissioners, ed. Charles Hamlin et al (Portland, ME, 1898)
- • George Clark [11 th Alabama], "Wilcox's Alabama Brigade at Gettysburg," Confederate Veteran 17 (1909), 229-230
- • John Bigelow [9 th Massachusetts Light Artillery], The Peach Orchard, Gettysburg, July 2, 1863: Explained by Official Reports and Maps (Minneapolis, 1910)
- • William Lochren, "The First Minnesota at Gettysburg" (January 14, 1890), Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle: Papers Read Before the Minnesota Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 1889-1892 (St. Paul, 1893)
- • W.H. Bullard [Co. C, 70 th New York] to Daniel E. Sickles, September 13, 1897, Daniel E. Sickles Papers, New-York Historical Society
- • Albertus McCreary, "Gettysburg: A Boy's Experience of the Battle," McClure's Magazine 33 (July 1909)
- • John Day Smith, The History of the Nineteenth Regiment of Maine Volunteer Infantry, 1862-1865 (Minneapolis, 1909)
- East Cemetery Hill & Culp's Hill
- • A Gallant Captain of the Civil War: Being the Record of the Extraordinary Adventures of Frederick Otto Baron von Fritsch [68 th New York], ed. Joseph Tyler Butts (New York, 1902)
- • William R. Kiefer, History of the One Hundred and Fifty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers (Easton, PA, 1909)
- • John Richards Boyle, Soldiers True: The Story of the One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers (New York, 1903)
- • Randolph H. McKim, A Soldiers Recollections: Leaves from the Diary of a Young Confederate (New York, 1911)
- • William Kepler, History of the Three Months' and Three Years' Service from April 16 th , 1861, to June 22 nd , 1864, of the Fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Union (Cleveland, 1886)
- • Jesse H. Jones [60 th New York], "The Breastworks at Culp's Hill," Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, eds. R.U. Johnson & C.C. Buel (New York, 1888), Vol. 3
- • Martin L. Olmsted [78 th New York], "On the Right at Gettysburg," National Tribune (December 17, 1908)
- • "General George H. Steuart's Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg," Southern Historical Society Papers 2 (July 1876)
- • Carl Schurz, "The Battle of Gettysburg," McClure's Magazine 29 (July 1907)
- • Thomas W. Hyde, Following the Greek Cross, Or, Memories of the Sixth Army Corps (Boston, 1894)
- • "Minutes of council, July 2, 1863," The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, DC, 1889), Series 1, Vol. 27 (pt 1)
- • Henry Warner Slocum to L.H. Morgan (January 2, 1864), In Memoriam: Henry Warner Slocum, 1826-1894 (Albany, NY, 1904)
- • Morton Wilkinson [U.S. Senator from Minnesota], "Army of the Potomac" (March 2, 1864), Congressional Globe, 38 th Congress, 1 st session
- • John Sedgwick to Seth Williams (March 10, 1864), The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, DC, 1889), Series 1, Vol. 27 (pt 1)
- The Third Day
- • Charles F. Morse, The Twelfth Corps at Gettysburg, July 1 st , 2 d and 3 d, 1863: A Paper Read Before the Military Historical Society of Boston (Boston, 1917)
- • Charles F. Morse to Robert M. Morse (July 17, 1863), Charles F. Morse Papers, 1861-1943, Massachusetts Historical Society
- • James Longstreet, "Lee in Pennsylvania," Annals of the War Written by Leading Participants North and South (Philadelphia, 1879)
- • Edward Porter Alexander, "The Great Charge and Artillery Fighting at Gettysburg," Battles & Leaders of the Civil War, eds. R.U. Johnson & C.C. Buel (New York," 1888), Vol. 3
- • Samuel Roberts [Co. A, 72 nd Pennsylvania], "The 72 d Pa.-The Trying March from Falmouth to Gettysburg," National Tribune (September 1, 1887)
- • Henry Eyster Jacobs, Lincoln's Gettysburg World-Message (Philadelphia, 1919)
- • Charles D. Page, History of the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Vol. Infantry (Meriden: Horton Printing, 1906)
- • Carlton McCarthy, Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 (Richmond, 1882)
- • John D.S. Cook [80 th New York], "Personal Reminiscences of Gettysburg" (December 12, 1903), War Talks in Kansas: A Series of Papers Read Before the Kansas Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (Kansas City, MO, 1906)
- • Franklin Sawyer, A Military History of the 8 th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Its Battles, Marches and Army Movements (Cleveland, 1881)
- • Joseph Ripley Chandler Ward, History of the One Hundred and Sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers (Philadelphia, 1906)
- • Frederick Fuger, "Cushing's Battery at Gettysburg," Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States 40 (November-December 1907)
- • Arthur James Fremantle, "The Battle of Gettysburg and the Campaign in Pennsylvania. Extract from the Diary of an English Officer Present With the Confederate Army," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 94 (September 1863)
- • James Harvey Kidd, Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman with Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War (Ionia, MI, 1908)
- • Almira Hancock, Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock (New York, 1887)
- The Retreat
- • John Daniel Imboden, "Lee at Gettysburg," The Galaxy 11 (April 1871)
- • James Longstreet, "Lee's Invasion of Pennsylvania," The Century Illustrated Magazine 33 (February 1887)
- • James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (Philadelphia, 1896)
- • "The Editor's Table," Southern Literary Messenger 37 (September 1863)
- • George G. Meade, "General Orders No. 68," The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, DC, 1889), Series 1, Vol. 27 (pt 3)
- • Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck (July 6, 1863), Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. R.P. Basler (New Brunswick, NJ, 1953), Vol. 6
- • George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, George G. Meade, jnr., The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (New York, 1913), Vol. 2
- • Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson, ed. John T. Morse (Boston, 1911), Vol. 1
- • Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade (July 14, 1863), Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. R.P. Basler (New Brunswick, NJ, 1953), Vol 6
- • "Testimony of General G.K. Warren" (March 9,1864), Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War at the Second Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress (Washington, DC, 1865)
- • Henry Nichols Blake [11 th Massachusetts], Three Years in the Army of the Potomac (Boston, 1866)
- • "Address by Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, U.S.A." (September 19, 1903), In Memoriam: Henry Warner Slocum, 1826-1894 (Albany, 1904)
- • Lorenzo L. Crounse, "Further Details of the Battle of Gettysburgh," New York Tunes (July 9, 1863)
- • Carl Schurz, "The Battle of Gettysburg," McClure's Magazine 29 (July 1907)
- • James Francis Crocker, "Prison Reminiscences: An Address, Read Before Stonewall Camp, Confederate Veterans, Portsmouth, Virginia, February 2 d, 1904," Southern Historical Society Papers 34 (1906)
- • Frederick Rauscher, Music on the March, 1862-'65: With the Army of the Potomac. 114 th Regt. P. V., Collis' Zouaves (Philadelphia, 1892)
- • Abraham T. Brewer [Co. A], History Sixty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865 (Pittsburgh, 1911)
- • Francis Amasa Walker, History of the Second Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac (New York, 1886)
- • James Silliman [28 th Pennsylvania] to Matilda Silliman (July 9, 1863), James Silliman Letterbook, Union League of Philadelphia Archives
- The Address & Remembrance
- • Abraham Lincoln, "Response to a Serenade" (July 7, 1863), Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. R.P. Basler (New Brunswick, NJ, 1953), Vol. 6
- • Galusha Aaron Grow, "Address to the United States House of Representatives" (July 4, 1861), Patriotic and Heroic Eloquence: A Book for the Patriot, Statesman and Student, ed. W.R. Wallace (New York, 1861)
- • Abraham Lincoln, "Address delivered at the dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg," Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. R.P. Basler (New Brunswick, NJ, 1953), Vol. 7
- • John Trowbridge, The South: A Tour of Its Battlefields and Ruined Cities, a Journey Through the Desolated States (Hartford, CT, 1866)
- • "Remarks of Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker, LL.D., Governor of the Commonwealth, Dedication of the Statue of John Burns of Gettysburg" (July 1, 1903), Pennsylvania at Gettysburg: Ceremonies at the Dedication of the Monuments, ed. J.P. Nicholson (Harrisburg, PA, 1904)
- • "Dedication of Monument, 84 th Regiment Infantry: Address of Captain Thomas E. Merchant" (September 11, 1889), Pennsylvania at Gettysburg: Ceremonies at the Dedication of the Monuments, ed. J.P. Nicholson (Harrisburg, PA, 1904)
- • "Address of Hon. Charles Devens" [September 17, 1877], Dedication of the Monument on Boston Common Erected to the Memory of the Men of Boston Who Died in the Civil War (Boston, 1877)
- • "Address at the Dedication of the Virginia Memorial at Gettysburg, Friday, June 8, 1917, by Leigh Robinson," Southern Historical Society Papers 42 (September 1917)
- • Lyndon Baines Johnson, "The Vice-President at Gettysburg" (May 30, 1963), Civil Service Journal 4 (July-September 1963)
- Gettysburg Order of Battle
- Index