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If you didn't sleep through U.S. history class, you've heard of Pickett's Charge. If you've seen the movieGettysburg, you're familiar with Little Round Top. If you've been to the battlefield, you've seen the Wheatfield. But do you know about the ten or so Confederates buried by accident in Gettysburg National Cemetery? Or about the Union general whose embezzling ways kept his bust from being displayed on his brigade's memorial? Or how that same embezzling general, when asked why he had no monument at Gettysburg, could rightly reply, Why, hell, the whole battlefield is my monument? Authors James and Suzanne Gindlesperger have visited Gettysburg an average of five times annually over the past twenty years.So You Think You Know Gettysburg?shows why they find it a place not only of horrible carnage and remarkable bravery but endless fascination. Who, or what, was Penelope? Whose dog is depicted on the Eleventh Pennsylvania Monument, and why? What are the Curious Rocks? W

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    A Paperback / softback by James Gindlesperger, Suzanne Gindlesperger

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      Publisher: John F Blair Publisher
      Publication Date: 13/05/2010
      ISBN13: 9780895873743, 978-0895873743
      ISBN10: 0895873745

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      Book Synopsis

      If you didn't sleep through U.S. history class, you've heard of Pickett's Charge. If you've seen the movieGettysburg, you're familiar with Little Round Top. If you've been to the battlefield, you've seen the Wheatfield. But do you know about the ten or so Confederates buried by accident in Gettysburg National Cemetery? Or about the Union general whose embezzling ways kept his bust from being displayed on his brigade's memorial? Or how that same embezzling general, when asked why he had no monument at Gettysburg, could rightly reply, Why, hell, the whole battlefield is my monument? Authors James and Suzanne Gindlesperger have visited Gettysburg an average of five times annually over the past twenty years.So You Think You Know Gettysburg?shows why they find it a place not only of horrible carnage and remarkable bravery but endless fascination. Who, or what, was Penelope? Whose dog is depicted on the Eleventh Pennsylvania Monument, and why? What are the Curious Rocks? W

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