Lost triumph : Lee's real plan at Gettysburg-and why it failed / Tom Carhart.
Carhart, Tom.
2006
E475.53 .C275 2006 (Mapit)
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Title Lost triumph : Lee's real plan at Gettysburg-and why it failed / Tom Carhart.
Author Carhart, Tom.
ISBN 0425207919 (pbk.)
0399152490 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York, N.Y. : Berkely Caliber, c2006, 2005.
Language English
Description xiii, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Call Number E475.53 .C275 2006
Summary A bold new thesis in the study of the Civil War suggests Lee had a heretofore undiscovered strategy at Gettysburg that, if successful, could have changed the outcome of the war. Conventional wisdom has held that on the third day of the battle, Lee made one profoundly wrong decision. But there is much more to the story, which Tom Carhart addresses for the first time. With meticulous detail, Carhart revisits the historic battles Lee taught at West Point--the victories of Napoleon at Austerlitz, Frederick the Great at Leuthen, and Hannibal at Cannae--and reveals what they can tell us about Lee's real strategy. What Carhart finds: Lee's plan for a rear assault that, combined with Pickett's Charge, could have broken the Union forces in half. Only in the final hours of the battle was the attack reversed through the daring of an unproven young general--George Armstrong Custer.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-281) and index.
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In Mexico
Building up to the Civil War
West Point and West Pointers
Classic battles of history
Infantry, artillery, and cavalry in the last Napoleonic War
The fighting begins
Early Confederate victories
Chancellorsville
Lee moves north
The Gettysburg fight begins
Gettysburg, day two
Plans for day three
The final plan
The implementation
Stuart meets Custer
Aftermath.

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