Haskell of Gettysburg: his life and Civil War papers [eBook - hoopla]

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Haskell of Gettysburg: his life and Civil War papers

(1989)

By: Haskell, Franklin Aretas, 1828-1864

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[United States] : Kent State University Press : Made available through hoopla, 1989

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1 online resource

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9781612777405 (electronic bk.) MWT11751816, 1612777406 (electronic bk.) 11751816

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English

NOTES

All students of the Civil War are indebted to Frank Haskell for his classic description of the battle of Gettysburg. A lieutenant on the staff of John Gibbon, Haskell stood at the focus of the Confederate assault on July 3, 1863. He wrote of the battle in a letter to his brother. When it came to light after the war it became and remains probably the most read and repeated account of Civil War combat written by a participant. It captures wholly the terrible fascination that the Civil War-and Gettysburg-holds for all Americans. Haskell wrote other letters (thirty-one in this collection) and attained the rank of colonel before he was killed at Cold Harbor on June 3, 1864.This 1989 paperback reprinting of the 1970 edition contains a new preface by Frank L. Byrne

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