Copies of this book at very expensive, as only 100 copies were printed, but I found a digitize copy at the Universiy of Virginia library site. Well worth the read. Eppa Hunton was involved in just about every major Civil War battle on the eastern front. He writes well, and the book is easy to read. He falls squarely in the camp that blames Longstreet and Ewell for the loss at Gettysburg. While showing obvious bias towards the south, you just need to take some of his assumptions with a grain of s
Copies of this book at very expensive, as only 100 copies were printed, but I found a digitize copy at the Universiy of Virginia library site. Well worth the read. Eppa Hunton was involved in just about every major Civil War battle on the eastern front. He writes well, and the book is easy to read. He falls squarely in the camp that blames Longstreet and Ewell for the loss at Gettysburg. While showing obvious bias towards the south, you just need to take some of his assumptions with a grain of salt. Definitely worth the read though.
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