Gettysburg: Bringing History to Life by Josh Gregory, Children’s Press, Sholastic, New York, 2012.
This
appears to be a book published for children for the sesquicentennial of
the Civil War. It is actually quite well done. It explains succinctly
Joshua Chamberlains heroics, Lee’s failure with Pickett’s Charge, and
Meade’s failure with not following up after the battle was over.
However, it does relate this battle to future events including the
Gettysburg Address and the end of the war.
It
has one factually inaccuracy which is makes twice. It says the
Confederacy never sent troops into Union territory after this. They
forget Jubal Early and the Calvary invasion which almost made it to
Washington through Maryland (a northern state) in 1864.
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