Description: Further DetailsTitle: “Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children”Condition: NewFormat: HardbackEAN: 9781611216899ISBN: 9781611216899Publisher: Savas BeatieRelease Date: 07/15/2024Description: The fighting on the first day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, was heavy, confusing, and decisive. Much of it consisted of short and often separate simultaneous engagements or “firefights,” a term the soldiers themselves often used to describe the close, vicious, and bloody combat. Several books have studied this important inaugural day of Gettysburg, but none have done so from the perspective of the rank and file of both armies. John Michael Priest’s “Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children”: John Reynolds’s I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, rectifies this oversight.When dawn broke on July 1, no one on either side could have conceived what was about to take place. Anticipating a fight and with a keen appreciation for terrain, Gen. John Buford deployed his Union cavalry in a giant arc north and west of Gettysburg to slow down any Confederate advance until Gen. John Reynolds could bring up his I Corps infantry. By the time the foot soldiers arrived, A. P. Hill’s heavy Confederate formations had pushed back the troopers from the west, and Dick Ewell’s Corps would soon arrive from the north, threatening the town and its key road network. Reynolds, who would die early in the fighting, poured his troops in as they arrived. The road system and undulating ground broke up command control, and the various ridges, tall ground cover, and powder smoke made target recognition difficult. Brigades and regiments often engaged on their own initiatives without the direction of a division or corps commander. The men of both armies fought with determination born of desperation, valor, and fear. By the time the fighting ended, the I Corps was in shambles and in pell-mell retreat for Cemetery Hill.Priest, who the legendary Edwin Bearss hailed as “the Ernie Pyle of the Civil War,” spent nine years researching this new study and walking the ground of the first day’s fight to immerse readers into the uncertain world of the rank-and-file experience. He consulted more than 300 primary sources, including letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper account, recollections, casualty lists, and drill manuals, to present the battle from the ground up. Nineteen detailed regimental maps illustrate the ebb and flow of the battle. The result is a fast-paced narrative with some events not always in agreement with conventional views, something Priest thoroughly explains in the footnotes.Readers will close the book fully understanding why a veteran New Yorker spoke for the survivors of both armies when he wrote, “Strong men of the regiment sobbed like children.”Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: John Michael PriestGenre: HistoryTopic: Military HistorySubtitle: John Reynolds’ I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863Item Weight: 1.95 poundsgISBN-10: 1611216893Type: AmericasRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: “Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children”
Title: “Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children”
EAN: 9781611216899
ISBN: 9781611216899
Release Date: 07/15/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Subtitle: John Reynolds’ I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863
Item Weight: 1.95 poundsg
ISBN-10: 1611216893
Type: Americas
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Topic: United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States / General, Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (See Also Travel / Maps & Road Atlases)
Book Title: Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children : John Reynolds' I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1 1863
Publication Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Référence, History
Author: John Michael Priest
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
