This book was written by Tom Carhart, published in 2005, the narrative is 269 pages and is illustrated with black and white drawings. This is a fresh and fascinating new look at one of the most pivotal moments in American history, the Battle of Gettysburg. Union forces repelled the brilliant Robert E. Lee, who had already thrashed a long line of Federal opponents, just as he was poised at the back door of the nation's capital. Conventional wisdom holds that Lee made one profoundly wrong decision on the last day of battle, launching "Pickett's Charge" uphill across an open field against the heart of the Union defense. But why would he have employed only a fifth of his forces at such a crucial moment? Now, Tom Carhart offers a bold thesis, that Lee's heretofore unknown strategy at Gettysburg was to combine Pickett's frontal attack with a daring rear assault by the great Jeb Stuart to break the Union Army in half. Only in the battles final hours was Stuart stopped by a force half the size of his own, led by a young, unproven general, George Armstrong Custer, who helped turn the tide of the war. This paper back book is in very good, used condition.

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