Voices From Gettysburg: Letters, Papers, And Memoirs From The Greatest Battle Of The Civil War (Guelzo - AG) quilts drawing on often overlooked primary

drawing on often overlooked primary source material

Hicks looks at the veteran's body as shaped by the trauma of the battlefield and hospital and the construction of a postwar identity in relation to that trauma

Since its creation

on the diaries of his wife

African American soldiers were ordered into areas deemed unhealthy for whites

Voices From Gettysburg: Letters, Papers, And Memoirs From The Greatest Battle Of The Civil War (Guelzo - AG) quilts drawing on often overlooked primaryThe voices of those who witnessed the Battle of Gettysburg and its aftermath with their own eyes who saw the bloodshed, heard its din, trembled in its crash, struggled with its aftermath are collected for the first time by Allen C. Guelzo, Americas foremost Civil War scholar, in this moving and sobering oral history. This treasure trove of original documents many never before published creates a uniquely personal, day by day eyewitness account of the