Record of a Nine Months' Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg
Record of a Nine Months' Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg

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Published: 186?

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The broadside gives a short history of the the activities the regiment engaged in during the Battle of Gettysburg and a list of the losses (wounded, killed, captured) by company. The broadside contains a border around three sides of the narrative text, all in brown ink; the Pennsylvania state seal (a crest of an eagle on a shield flanked by two rearing horses standing on a ribbon (virtue, liberty and independence) used during the Civil War era, in gold; and at the bottom of the broadside, superimposed over the narrative's border, is the list of losses in black ink with a half-sun border.

Life in Camp
Life in Camp

Author: John C. Williams

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9781437063851

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Nine Months to Gettysburg: Stannard's Vermonters and the Repulse of Pickett's Charge
Nine Months to Gettysburg: Stannard's Vermonters and the Repulse of Pickett's Charge

Author: Howard Coffin

Publisher: The Countryman Press

Published: 2011-09-19

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1581578490

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The story of the brave Vermont brigade that helped win the Civil War. On the Fourth of July, 1863, reporting on the aftermath of the Civil War’s most crucial battle, the New York Times wrote: “A Vermont brigade held the key position at Gettysburg and did more than any other body of men to gain the triumph which decided the fate of the Union.” The citizen soldiers led by General George J. Stannard helped stabilize the line, and then shattered the right flank of Pickett’s famous charge just when the battle’s outcome hung in the balance. Over a decade since its original release, Nine Months to Gettysburg is now available in paperback. Coffin draws on scores of soldiers’ letters to relate how and why young recruits from isolated hill farms flocked to the Union colors in response to Lincoln’s call in 1862. And in the nine months leading up to Gettysburg, they recorded, in extraordinary detail, foraging for food, enduring homesickness, monotony, and often fatal diseases. This book movingly captures their myriad anxieties as they are thrust suddenly into the most important infantry maneuver directed against the Confederate assault.

The 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers at Gettysburg
The 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers at Gettysburg

Author: Michael A. Dreese

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Published: 2000

Total Pages: 208

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While the Battle of Gettysburg is often remembered for Chamberlain's dramatic defense of Little Round Top, Pickett and Pettigrew's tragic charge, and the stand of the Iron Brigade, less-remembered units like the 151st Pennsylvania were also crucial in the Civil War's most famous battle. Relatively untried, and near the end of its nine-month term of service, the 151st nonetheless suffered greatly and served bravely in important actions against Pettigrew's North Carolinians on July 1, and was involved in repulsing the famous Confederate charge two days later. During the course of the battle, the 151st lost over 72 percent of its men to death, wounds, or capture, the second-highest-percentage loss of all Federal units at the battle. This is the account of that courageous and often overlooked unit and its role in this decisive moment in American history. The foreword is by noted Gettysburg scholar Timothy H. Smith. Also included are an index, bibliography, and photographs and other illustrations, including maps.