Online Library TheLib.net » Gettysburg's forgotten cavalry actions: Farnsworth's Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863
cover of the book Gettysburg's forgotten cavalry actions: Farnsworth's Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863

Ebook: Gettysburg's forgotten cavalry actions: Farnsworth's Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863

00
06.02.2024
0
0

In 1998, Eric J. Wittenberg's Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions won the Bachelder-Coddington Award for the year's best new work interpreting the Battle of Gettysburg. This fully revised edition adds extensive new research, interpretations, and conclusions that substantially add to our understanding of these important mounted actions.

Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions examines in great detail three of the campaign's central cavalry episodes. The first is the heroic but doomed legendary charge of Brig. Gen. Elon J. Farnsworth's cavalry brigade against Confederate infantry and artillery. The attack was launched on July 3 after the repulse of Pickett's Charge, and the high cost included the life of General Farnsworth. The second examines Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt's tenacious fight on South Cavalry Field, including a fresh look at the opportunity to roll up the Army of Northern Virginia's flank on the afternoon of July 3. Finally, Wittenberg studies the short but...

Download the book Gettysburg's forgotten cavalry actions: Farnsworth's Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863 for free or read online
Read Download

Continue reading on any device:
QR code
Last viewed books
Related books
Comments (0)
reload, if the code cannot be seen