Meade With Meade At Gettysburg

Catton, Bruce. Glory Road. Garden City, New York Usa: Doubleday & Company, 1956.
Marfree, early '56 Doubleday prtg in perf bound black cloth boards, map endpapers, clipped modestly sunned DJ designed by Sue Ramsey, indexed; no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours. ; 0.8 x 5.2 x 8 inches; 416 pages; \nEven better than Volume 1! March 3, 2003\nReviewer: Deborah MacGillivray (Scotland, England & US) -\nThis is the second in the trilogy of the Army of the Potomac and I enjoyed it even more. I had been reading Gone with the Wind, stuck in bed with a terrible chest cold. I was planning on finishing it, but my Auntie's Beagle Pepper decided GWTW was good eating...so I pick up Mr. Lincoln's army and was hooked. \nBruce Catton writes like no other about the American Civil War. His insight makes you believe he was there, that he lived through it, coming from his years of listening to the veterans in his hometown. And though he is a Yankee, he strives very hard to be impartial. He tries, but surprisingly I sense an admiration for the colourful soldiers of the South slipping through the prose. \n\nMr. Lincoln's Army, centred around the opening of the war, the trouble's Lincoln had with find a general to run his army that wanted to fight. The "On to Virginia" cry, meaning march about 50 miles down the road and capture the Capitol of the Confederacy, was something Lincoln could not seem to rid from the mind of his commanders...he knew you had to cut off the head of the Army of Northern Virgina, not capture their capitol to end the conflict. Was surprising, Lincoln understood this so clearly, yet the trained Generals never could until Grant. \n\nHis struggles to find the perfect commander continues in GLORY ROAD. This book, quite possibly is Catton's best work, following Lincoln's army and the changes in Generals from the battles of Fredericksbu rg to Gettysburg. He gives you insight into each General, whiskered Burnsides inheriting command from "Little Mac" McClellan, to the rough-edged Hooker at Chancellorsville, and then the slow but steady Meade at Gettysburg. He was not flashy, but he would fight. \n\nCatton brings these battles alive, but more than that, he gives you to the ability to see the war through the eyes of the common soldiers, showing you everyday life, the small touches that transcends just being another history book. Like Capt. James Hall of the 2nd Maine Battery. Catton's description of dashing Hall having a discussion under cannon fire, with Southern blasting away, yet he acts if nothing is happening. When one shell bursts too close, he dismounts, goes to one of his guns, and fires at that the ONE particular Southern gun that DARED disturbed his conversations, remounts and returns to the talk like nothing had happened! ! These snippets are just too marvellous! ! \n\nHis prose reads more like fiction; it's so enjoyable. I know it has been fashionable for many of the newer voices in the field to garner attention. However, if you really want a view of the War Between the States that is more like a visit with a time machine, then you must read the genius of Catton.. 0385041675.

Hardcover, Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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No author Stated: The Story of Gettysburg in Pictures, Gettysburg, Pa: Blocher's

Soft Cover. Good/Wraps, Good. No Edition Stated. Oblong 8"x11". Very nice, clean copy marred only by light crease at top front corner affecting all pages. Illustrated with full page black and white photos depicting the most interesting aspects of the site. Cover art is especially attractive -- full color, with portraits of Maj. Gen. Robert E. Lee and Maj. General George G. Meade with miliary officers and cannons. Undated. Former owner's name written neatly at top of inside front cover.

[SW: EPHEMERA. GETTYSBURG. BATTLE SITES. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR HISTORY & MILITARISMMilitary]

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CATTON, BRUCE. The Army Of The Potomac: Glory Road. Doubleday & Company, Garden City: 1952.

389 pages. Covers those critical months between the autumn of 1862 and midsummer of the following year when the eventual outcome of the United States Civil War was determined by the Army of the Potomac. After a bloody massacre at Fredericksburg, an aimless and muddy march up and down the banks of the Rappahannock, and a catastrophe of confusion at Chancellorsville, this army took a firm stand on the hills to the west of a small town called Gettysburg and finally turned the fortunes of war against the Confederacy. Includes an Index. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition with some wear to dustjacket.

[SW: (Key Words: United States History, United States Civil War, Bruce Catton, Army of the Potomac, George Sykes, J. E. B. Stuart, General Darius N. Couch, George E. Pickett, George G. Meade, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Joseph Hooker, General Henry W. Slocum, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Ambrose E. Burnside, David B. Birney).]

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Meade, George Gordon. With Meade At Gettysburg. Philadelphia: War Library & Museum, 1930.
24 Folding Maps At Rear DJ soiled Has the bookplate of the War Library on the front pastedown with an ink presentation as follows: "Presented to/Mrs.Percy Young Schelly/National President Dames of/the Loyal Legion of United States/of America, 1930-1934." Below the bookplate is written " Philadelphia, Pa. 1948." On the front free endpaper is another ink presentation as follows: "Presented to/Cyrus Young Schelly II/By 'Auntie'/1948".

Hardcover, 8vo, Very Good in Good DJ.

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