Gettysburg

St. Martin's Press-3PL, 2004. 1ST. SOFTCOVER. GOOD. 1ST. 5.63 x 1.07 x 8.26 inches. pp. 463. Publisher St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition (May 1, 2004) Language English SOFTCOVER 463 pages ISBN-10 0312309368 ISBN-13 978-0312309367 Item Weight 14.9 OUNCES Dimensions 5.63 x 1.07 x 8.26 inches. The Civil War is the American Iliad. Lincoln, Stonewall Jackson, Grant, and Lee still stand as heroic ideals, as stirring to our national memory as were the legendary Achilles and Hector to the world of the ancient Greeks. Within the story of our Iliad one battle stands forth above all others: Gettysburg. Millions visit Gettysburg each year to walk the fields and hills where Joshua Chamberlain made his legendary stand and Pickett went down to a defeat which doomed a nation, but in defeat forever became a symbol of the heroic Lost Cause. As the years passed, and the scars healed, the debate, rather than drifting away has intensified. It is the battle which has become the great what if, of American history and the center of a dreamscape where Confederate banners finally do crown the heights above the town.