Historiography of the Battle of Gettysburg

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Secondary Sources

Bates, Samuel. The Battle of Gettysburg. Philadelphia, PA: T.H. Davis, 1875.

Bearss, Edwin. Receding Tide: Vicksburg and Gettysburg, the Campaigns That Changed the Civil War. New York, NY: National Geographic, 2010.

Bearss, Edwin C. The Campaign for Vicksburg. Volumes I-III. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Press, 1985.

Brown, Kent Masterson. Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Barlow, BG Francis Channing (w/c), 452.

Coburn, Cpl. James P., 455.

French, MG William H., 459.

Haupt, BG Herman, 460.

Ingalls, BG Rufus, 462.

Longstreet, LTG James,463

Meade, MG George Gordon, 464.

Criticisms of pursuit of Lee after Gettysburg, 464.

Meigs, BG Montgomery C., 465.

Stannard, BG George J., 471.

Brown, Kent Masterson. Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Coddington, Edwin B. The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command. New York, NY: Scribner’s, 1968.

Dowdey, Clifford. Death of a Nation: The Story of Lee and His Men at Gettysburg [1St ed.] ed. New York, NY: Knopf, 1958.

Freeman Douglas Southall. 2016. Lee's Lieutenants: Vol. III - Gettysburg to Appomattox. New York, NY: Scribner’s, 1944. https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=4807414.

Guelzo, Allen C. Gettysburg: The Last Invasion. First edition. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

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Longstreet, LTG James, 622.

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Lee's retreat and responsibility of, 623.

Harman, Troy D. All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War’s Pivotal Battle. Essex, CT: Stackpole Books, 2022.

Hess Earl J. Pickett's Charge the Last Attack at Gettysburg. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Hessler, James A. Sickles at Gettysburg: The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2009.

Longstreet, Helen D. Lee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light of the Official Records. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1905.

Martin, David G. Gettysburg, July 1. New ed. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2003.

O'Neill, Robert F. Small But Important Riots: The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville. Sterling, VA: Potomac Books, 2023.

Small But Important Riots by Robert F. O'Neill (2023)

Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg, the Second Day. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg - Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill: Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg - the First Day. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Pfarr, Cory M. Longstreet at Gettysburg: A Critical Reassessment. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2019.

Longstreet, LTG James

Meade, MG George Gordon, 204.

Pfarr, Cory M. Righting the Longstreet Record at Gettysburg: Six Matters of Controversy and Confusion. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2023.

Longstreet, LTG James

Meade, MG George Gordon, 203.

Rawley, James A. Turning Points of the Civil War. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1966.

Reardon, Carol. Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Sauers, Richard Allen., and James L. McLean. The Gettysburg Campaign, June 3-August 1, 1863: A Comprehensive, Selectively Annotated Bibliography. 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Butternut & Blue, 2004.

Sears, Stephen W. Gettysburg. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

Trudeau, Noah Andre. Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage. 1st ed. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2002.

Tucker, Glenn. High Tide at Gettysburg; the Campaign in Pennsylvania. 1st ed. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958.

Varon, Elizabeth R. Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2023.

Badger, Algernon Sidney (1839-1905), 440.

Barber, Alexander E. (1829-1875), 440.

Campbell, Hugh J. (1831-1898), 441.

Chester, Thomas Morris (1834 -1892), 441.

Fairfax, John Walter (1828-1908), 444.

Joseph, Peter (1842-1905), 210.

Kellogg, William Pitt (1830-1918), 447.

Longstreet, LTG James (1821-1904), 448-50.

McEnery, John (1833-1891), 451.

Ogden, Frederick Nash, Jr. (1837 - 1886), 453.

Pargoud, J. Frank (1828-1908), 453.

Pinchback, Pinckney Benton Stewart P.B.S (1837-1921), 453.

Warmoth, Henry Clay (1842-1931), 457.

Wert, Jeffry D. Gettysburg, Day Three. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Journal Articles

Coddington, E. B. The Strange Reputation of General Meade: A Lesson in Historiography. The Historian, 23(2), 1961, 145-66. https://go.openathens.net/redirector/liberty.edu?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/strange-reputation-general-meade-lesson/docview/1296484702/se-2

Gallagher, Gary W. "Abner Doubleday’s Revenge: Years After Gettysburg, The Union General Still Seethed About His Treatment at the Battle." Civil War Times, August 2019, 22+. Gale In Context: Biography (accessed November 5, 2023). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A586470095/BIC?u=vic_liberty&sid=summon&xid=a1186c58.

Gallagher, Gary W. “High Tide for Gettysburg?” North & South: The Magazine of Civil War Conflict. 7, no. 3 (2004): 27–30.

Hogue, James K. "The Strange Career of Jim Longstreet: History and Contingency in the Civil War Era." In The Struggle for Equality : Essays on Sectional Conflict, the Civil War, and the Long Reconstruction, Edited by Orville Vernon Burton, , Jerald Podair, , and Jennifer L. Weber, Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 153-171. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/liberty/reader.action?docID=3444025.

Hughes, Matthew, and William James. Philpott. Palgrave Advances in Modern Military History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Latschar, John. “History and Memory Challenges of Interpreting the Civil War.” Proteus (Shippensburg, Pa.) 19, no. 2 (2002).

McConnell, Stuart. “Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory.” Reviews in American History 26 (4), 1998, 705.

Miller, Randall M. “Pennsylvania In/And the Civil War: A Short Discovery Tour.” Pennsylvania History. 75, no. 3 (2008): 410–21. https://doi.org/10.2307/pennhistory.75.3.0410.

Peter Paret. “The History of War and the New Military History.” In Understanding War, 209-226. Princeton University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv131bv58.20.

Powell, Walter Louis. “The Gettysburg Campaign, June 3-August 1, 1863: A Comprehensive, Selectively Annotated Bibliography (Review).” Civil War History 29, no. 2 (1983): 170–1.

Reardon, Carol. “Battle of Gettysburg.” In A Companion to the U. S. Civil War, edited by Aaron Sheedan-Dean, 280-96. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

Robertson, James I. Jr. “The Continuing Battle of Gettysburg: An Essay Review.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 58, no. 2 (1974): 278–82.

Rothera, Evan C. “Forgotten Fire-Eater: William Barksdale in History and Memory.” Journal of Mississippi History 72, no. 4 (2010): 401–25.

Primary Sources

Early, Jubal A. “Reply to General Longstreet’s Second Paper.” Southern Historical Society Papers, 5: 270-87.

Gibbon, John. “The Council of War on the Second Day.” In Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers, vol. 3, ed. Robert U. Johnson and Clarence C. Buel (313-314). New York, NY: Century, 1887.

Hunt, Henry J. “The Third Day at Gettysburg.” In Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers, vol. 3, ed. Robert U. Johnson and Clarence C. Buel (369-385). New York, NY: Century, 1887.

Longstreet, James. “Lee in Pennsylvania.” In Annals of the War Written by Leading Participants, North and South (414-446). Philadelphia, PA: Times, 1877.

Longstreet, James. “The Mistakes of Gettysburg.” In Annals of the War Written by Leading Participants, North and South (619-633). Philadelphia, PA: Times, 1878.

Longstreet, James. “Lee’s Invasion of Pennsylvania.” In Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers, vol. 3, ed. Robert U. Johnson and Clarence C. Buel (244-251). New York, NY: Century, 1887.

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Smith, J.B. “The Charge of Pickett, Pettigrew, and Trimble.” In Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers, vol. 3, ed. Robert U. Johnson and Clarence C. Buel (354-5). New York, NY: Century, 1887.

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