Hallowed Ground: a Walk at Gettysburg ( James M. McPherson -GM) richmond The desperate struggle for mastery

The desperate struggle for mastery of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley

This book is arranged along a tour route that includes 30 featured venues

with the remainder of his command routed from the battlefield

guiding members of the rank and file as they struggled to live with the contradictory elements of their violent and volatile world

and by hundreds of thousands who only knew of him

Hallowed Ground: a Walk at Gettysburg ( James M. McPherson -GM) richmond The desperate struggle for masteryJames M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world, walks us through the site of the bloodiest and perhaps most consequential battle ever fought by Americans: the Battle of Gettysburg. The events that occurred at Gettysburg are etched into our collective memory, as they served to change the course of the Civil War and with it the course of history. More than any other