Pickett's Charge: Eyewitness Accounts at the Battle of Gettysburg

At Gettysburg on July 3 1863 Confederate soldiers launched one of historys most famous infantry assaults: Picketts Charge. Using the participants own words Richard Rollins deftly reconstructs that momentous event. Separate sections cover planning and preparation; the preliminary artillery barrage; the charges of Picketts Pettigrews and Trimbles Divisions; and defensive actions up and down the Federal line. From the generals who devised the assault to the lower-level officers and men who bravely walked through shell and shot Rollins offers a comprehensive panoramic view of the charge with more than 150 firsthand accounts―including accounts from Lee Longstreet Pickett Meade and Hancock―many of them long forgotten and previously unpublished.