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"Chancellorsville and Gettysburg merits the attention of modern students of these major Eastern campaigns as well as anyone interested in postwar controversies among Union generals."--Gary W. Gallagher General Abner Doubleday (1819-1893) is best known as the man who "invented" baseball, but his admirable service on behalf of the Union earned him a reputation as a solid commander and patriot. He saw action at Fort Sumter where he aimed the first gun fired against the rebellion; at Antietam, show more Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville, where he lead the First and later the Third Divisions of the First Corps of the Army of the Potomac; and finally at Gettysburg, where he commanded the entire First Corps after the death of General Reynolds early in the morning of the first day. Facing powerful assaults from Confederates, the outnumbered First Corps fought, under Doubleday's calm leadership, a valiant holding action that culminated in high casualties, but gave General Meade the crucial time he needed to reinforce the battlefield. Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, originally commissioned as part of the landmark Campaigns of the Civil War series, provides stern judgements of Generals Meade and Howard; astute insights into other generals such as Hooker, Reynolds, and Sickle; and penetrating, minute-by-minute analyses by a leading participant of these two pivotal battles. Although the fierce resistance by the First Corps during the bloody late afternoon of July 1 never received its due praise, Doubleday's account of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg stands as a passionate, uncompromising tribute. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
- Original publication date
- 1882; 1994 (reissued with new introduction by Gary W. Gallagher) (reissued with new introduction by Gary W. Gallagher)
- People/Characters
- Abner Doubleday; Richard Heron Anderson; David B. Birney; John Buford; Darius N. Couch; Jubal A. Early (show all 29); Richard S. Ewell; John Gibbon; David McMurtrie Gregg; Winfield Scott Hancock; A. P. Hill; Joseph Hooker; Oliver O. Howard; Stonewall Jackson (Thomas Jonathan Jackson); Judson Kilpatrick; Robert E. Lee; James Longstreet; Lafayette McLaws; George Gordon Meade; Alfred Pleasonton; John F. Reynolds; Robert E. Rodes; John Sedgwick; Daniel E. Sickles; Henry W. Slocum; James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart; James S. Wadsworth; Gouverneur K. Warren; Cadmus M. Wilcox
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- USA; Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA; Chancellorsville, Virginia, USA; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA; Pennsylvania, USA; Virginia, USA (show all 9); Cemetery Ridge, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA; Emmetsburg, Maryland, USA; Little Round Top, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- Important events
- American Civil War (1861 | 1865); Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Battle of Gettysburg (1863-07-01 | 1863-07-03); Battle of Chancellorsville (1863)
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- PREFACE
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In writing this narrative, which relates to the decisive campaign which freed the Northern States from invasion, it may not be out of place to state what facilities I have had for observati... (show all)on in the fulfilment [sic.]of so important a task. - Blurbers
- Allan, William
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