Bücher von Carol Reardon

When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned first to Antoine Henri Jomini's classic military text, Summary of the Art of War. As Carol Reardon shows, Jomini's work was only one voice in what ultimately became a lively and contentious national discourse about how the North should conduct war.

This text examines the events of 3rd July 1863: Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg - considered by many to be the ""climax of the climax"" of the American Civil War. The author explores how and why it endures so strongly in the American imagination as the result of the amalgamation of history and memory.