In July 1863 the bloodiest and most decisive battle of the Civil War was fought near the sleepy town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. While many books ...
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Aug 16, 2011
Paul
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In "When the Smoke Cleared at Gettysburg," Lancaster journalist George Sheldon takes a refreshingly different approach in considering the Civil War's Pennsylvania Campaign and the crucial Battle of Gettysburg. Rather than analyzing combat strategy and tactics -- Robert E. Lee's poor decisions, George Gordon Meade's competent if uninspired ones -- Sheldon focuses on the difficulties that the people of Gettysburg faced after the battle. Sheldon's post-battle Gettysburg is a landscape o
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Jan 23, 2011
Kevin
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The author, apparently a local historian, seems to be very committed to his subject. He’s done his research and has some great stories to tell. He dispatches with the actual battle in a few short chapters and focuses on local residents, which is fine--I find military history pretty tedious. Unfortunately, he’s just not a very good writer. I blame the editor (if there was one--maybe this is a vanity publication?). Awkwardly constructed sentences, repetition, typos. And even at only 260 page
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Oct 21, 2010
Connie
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I often wonder what it must have been like for the people left behind after the great battles of the Civil War. George Sheldon's book does an excellent job of putting the reader back in Gettysburg "after the smoke cleared".
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