Voices from Gettysburg Letters, Papers, and Memoirs from the Greatest Battle of the Civil War [Audiobook]

Through these singular voices, we are there for the opening moves at Brandy Station and Winchester, Virginia; during the march with the advancing armies toward Seminary Ridge on July 1st: at the devastating battles for East Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill on July 2nd; amid the exhausted and blood-drained soldiers for one final deadly infantry assault known as Pickett's Charge on July 3rd; and at the inevitable, harrowing retreat of the Confederates and Abraham Lincoln's immortal address. We hear from a Union staff officer, a civilian theologian, a Confederate artilleryman, a sympathetic Northern woman, a Union prisoner-of-war, Union colonels and Confederate generals, a drummer boy, a fearful college student, those who orchestrated the Battle of Gettysburg, those who survived it, and those who would perish. Gathering maps, personal letters, excerpts from forgotten memoirs, a detailed order of battle, and a comprehensive list of every unit that fought, New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian and author Allen C. Guelzo delivers an invaluable and sobering firsthand perspective of the Civil War's turning point. Powerful, haunting, and unforgettable, it's told in the authentic words of fire, blood, and smoke by those who saw the battle, heard its din, trembled in its crash, and struggled with its aftermath.