Table of Contents
Preface vi
Acknowledgments vii
Chapter 1 "General Meade … Let the Crop Go to Waste" 1
Chapter 2 "Natural and Artificial Obstacles" 9
Chapter 3 "No Field … For Battle" 25
Chapter 4 "Elastic Spirits" 40
Chapter 5 "If Meade Does Not Move I Wish To Attack Him"52
Chapter 6 "Firing Pistols, Flashing Sabers and Excited Men" 67
Chapter 7 "What Can I Do With Such Generals?" 86
Chapter S "One of the Very Fiercest Fights of the War" 102
Chapter 9 "Matters Again Look a Little Complicated" 119
Chapter 10 "The Long Glittering Hedge of Bayonets" 135
Chapter 11 "They Came Near Bagging the Division" 156
Chapter 12 "Meade Seems Unwilling to Attack" 168
Chapter 13 "A Situation to Try the Stoutest Hearts" 174
Chapter 14 "Almost Like Boys Chasing a Hare" 192
Chapter 15 "A Bloody and Doubtful Contest" 203
Chapter 16 "Move Immediately and With the Utmost Dispatch" 222
Chapter 17 "A Spectacle Such As Few … Had Ever Beheld" 230
Chapter 18 "A New and Decidedly Unpleasant Sensation" 241
Chapter 19 "Never Was the Voice of A Mule So Harsh!" 249
Chapter 20 "For God's Sake Hold … Them for Ten Minutes Longer!" 256
Chapter 21 "The Muskets Began to Crack" 269
Chapter 22 "Wherever We Turned the Confederates Were Ready For Us" 289
Chapter 23 "Everything Went With a Rush" 300
Chapter 24 "I Expect We'd Better Charge" 329
Chapter 25 "No Little Confusion" 348
Chapter 26 "No Fires, No Supper and No Sleep" 364
Chapter 27 "They Ought To Have Known Better" 374
Chapter 28 "Lee Is Unquestionably Bullying You" 379
Chapter 29 "I Desire To Be Relieved From Command" 386
Chapter 30 "Arms Glittering in the Bright Autumn Sunshine" 397
Chapter 31 "A Most Beautiful Trap" 410
Chapter 32 "He Got the Advantage of ME" 429
Epilogue: An Assessment of Command 441
Bibliography 454
Index 465