The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign (Jon M. Nese, Jeffrey J. Harding - GC) battle analyzing its planning

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1863 provides a day-by-day account of the preliminary phases of the campaign and follows the two armies from their positions in central Virginia after the Battle of Chancellorsville to their final arrival on the battlefield

who embraced emancipation primarily to punish secessionists and remove slavery as a future threat to union―goals that emerged in the process of war

by examining the events of 3 July 1863 through the selective and evocative lens of 'memory' we can learn much about why Pickett's Charge endures so strongly in the American imagination

The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign (Jon M. Nese, Jeffrey J. Harding - GC) battle analyzing its planningBy Jeffrey J. Harding and Jon M. Nese Foreward by Carol Reardon & Afterword by Gregory Forbes As the nations future hung in the balance, the Weather Gods delivered a wrath of fury on Union and Confederate forces throughout the Gettysburg Campaign. First, record breaking heat and humidity wore down the warring armies during ungodly forced marches. Next, relentless storms plagued the soldiers with resultant muddy slogs on nearly impassable roads. As the