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Savas Beatie Confederates Killed in Action at Gettysburg
Nearly 4,700 Confederate soldiers are known to have dies as a result of the Battle of Gettysburg. Confederates Killed in Action at Gettysburg, by historian Gregory A. Coco, offers a selection of 50 stories, each describing the last moments of a soldier’s life from Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. The accounts are as haunting as they are informative.
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Savas Beatie Two Confederate Officers Remember Gettysburg: Col. Robert M. Powell, 5th Texas Infantry, Hood’s Texas Brigade & Capt. George Hillyer, 9th Georgia Infantry
Colonel Robert Michael Powell (1826-1916) of the 5th Texas Infantry Regiment was born in Alabama but moved to Texas in 1849 to practice law. When the war broke out, he was commissioned a captain in Company D, 5th Texas Infantry and was promoted to colonel and command of the regiment in November 1862. The 5th Texas, part of Jerome Robertson’s Texas Brigade, played a prominent role on July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, where the 37-year-old Powell led 409 men into the caldron and made repeated efforts to mount Little Round Top. The regiment lost 54 killed, 112 wounded, and 45 missing or captured. Powell was wounded and captured on the slope of the rocky hill and was not paroled until weeks before the end of the war.Captain George Hillyer would survive the Civil War and one day become the mayor of Atlanta. That outcome looked almost impossible in early July 1863 at Gettysburg, where he led his regiment (part of George “Tige” Anderson’s brigade) in some of the most brutal fighting of the war. Hillyer and his men fought across the bloody Rose farm and into the Rose woods, and against Stony Hill. His description of the fighting is graphic, detailed, absolutely harrowing. This includes Hillyer’s full account, his official battle report, and a letter to his father about his experiences on July 2 and 3. Historian Greg Coco added detailed explanatory notes and a walking tour of ground over which Hillyer and his men walked and fought.
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Savas Beatie The Civil War Infantryman: In Camp, on the March, and in Battle
According to Lt. Edmund Patterson of the 9th Alabama Infantry, “one know… nothing at all about [combat] until he has participated in it.” Patterson’s observations and host of others by soldiers North and South shed some light on the subject of Civil War battles and the conduct and experiences of the soldiers who fought them in The Civil War Infantryman. Historian Greg Coco’s expert handling of the material conveys what food they ate, the uniforms they wore, and the equipment and weapons they carried and used, and much more. The themes cover everything from recruitment, training and marches, to camp life, combat, and mustering out. Soldiers discuss wounds, field hospitals, and burials of friends and foe alike.
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Savas Beatie A Concise Guide to the Artillery at Gettysburg
A Concise Guide to the Artillery at Gettysburg is a tremendous resource jammed with useful information regarding the actions, weapons, and ammunition of artillery units at the war’s pivotal battle. Gregory A. Coco sets forth the organization of artillery in both armies and offers a concise narrative about the role played by the artillery of each corps in the battle. This study also includes detailed maps for each day’s action, a chart with the numbers of each type of gun in each army, and an order of battle listing the types of guns, units strengths, and casualties in each battery.
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Savas Beatie Gettysburg'S Confederate Dead
At least 10,000 Union and Confederates soldiers lost their lives as a result of the Battle of Gettysburg. Visitors and readers quickly learn that the former were eventually interred in the national cemetery. What happened to the Confederate dead? Their journey to a peaceful afterlife, explains historian Gregory Coco in Gettysburg’s Confederate Dead, was a much longer and lonely experience.This unique study is divided into two sections. Part I explains the riveting story of how a local physician made it his mission to identify as many of the Southern dead as possible to save them from oblivion. How he did so, and the heartbreaking details involved, is riveting. This section also sets forth how another Gettysburg doctor disinterred 3,320 sets of Confederate remains and shipped them South between 1871-1873, partially in an effort to keep them from being obliterated by area farmers. Part II is an 80-page alphabetical roster of 1,400 identified Confederates, including their initial and final grave locations, as well as their units, ages, and date of death. Finally, several appendices discuss Confederate casualties, the burial sites themselves, missing bodies, and other related interesting topics.This fascinating title on a macabre subject belongs in the library of every student of Gettysburg.
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Savas Beatie Rebel Humor: 120 Stories of the Comical Side of Confederate Army Service, 1861-1865
The soldiers look serious and stern, staring back at us from their formal portraits. In fact, they were young men with individual personalities filled with the exuberance of youth, married to an often fun-loving attitude toward the tough military life in which they found themselves. These 120 stories by officers and privates delve into the playful side of Confederate service from enlisting, eating, and marching, to cooking, combat, and camp life. Fun, easy to read, and informative.
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Savas Beatie On the Bloodstained Field: Human Interest Stories of the Campaign and Battle of Gettysburg
On The Bloodstained Field presents nearly 300 compelling human-interest stories from the Battle of Gettysburg that are so fascinating that it is nearly impossible to stop reading. Did you know that a dog was probably one of the first casualties in the battle? Or that a “gentleman’s duel” took place during the fighting on July 2? Few know that a soldier committed suicide during the fighting, or that three brothers were killed by a single shell, and that a Gettysburg farmer lost several thousands of dollars in gold stolen by a Confederate general.On The Bloodstained Field is perfect for young students of the battle or veteran campaigners who want lighter fare – much of it they have never heard before.
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Savas Beatie Killed in Action: Eyewitness Accounts of the Last Moments of 100 Union Soldiers Who Died at Gettysburg
At least 10,000 soldiers were killed or mortally wounded in the three-day Battle of Gettysburg. More than 5,000 of these deaths were suffered by Union officers and enlisted men. Author Greg Coco mined the sources to pull out eyewitness accounts to illustrate the last moments, hours, or days of 100 Federals who fell there, all meticulously detailed and substantiated by historian Greg Coco.
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Savas Beatie War Stories: 150 Little-Known Stories of the Campaign and Battle of Gettysburg
Historian Greg Coco mined letter collections and diary entries to produce this small but fascinating anthology that demonstrates the humanity of the soldiers who marched to and fought through the great battle of Gettysburg.
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