Ebook: Gettysburg's forgotten cavalry actions: Farnsworth's Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863
Author: Wittenberg Eric J
- Tags: Gettysburg Battle of Gettysburg Pa. 1863, Military operations Cavalry, History, Pennsylvania -- History -- Civil War 1861-1865 -- Cavalry operations, United States -- History -- Civil War 1861-1865 -- Cavalry operations, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg, United States
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Savas Beatie
- City: El Dorado Hills;Cal;Pennsylvania;Gettysburg;United States
- Edition: 1st Savas Beatie ed
- Language: English
- epub
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...