THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG BY FRANK HASKELL - ONLY 2500 PRINTED - 1908

Description: THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG BY FRANK ARETAS HASKELL Aide-de-Camp to General John Gibbon, and Colonel of Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Infantry LIMITED EDITION – ONLY 2500 PRINTED FIRST EDITION FINE - CONDITION Original, Solidly Bound, Antique Book Contains Illustrations, Portraits and Maps Considered one of the Finest Accounts of the Battle of Gettysburg PUBLISHED BY THE WISCONSIN HISTORY COMMISSION, IN 1908 All students of the Civil War are indebted to Frank Haskell for his classic description of the Battle of Gettysburg. A Lieutenant on the staff of John Gibbon, Haskell stood at the focus of the Confederate assault on July 3, 1863. He wrote of the battle in a lengthy essay letter to his brother. When it came to light after the war it became and remains probably the most read and repeated account of Civil War combat written by a participant. It captures wholly the terrible fascination that the Civil War – and Gettysburg – holds for all Americans. On July 3, 1863, when Pickett’s Virginians pierced the Union line at the Angle, Frank Haskell was for a few moments the pivot on which the outcome of the battle hinged. Frank Haskell won his reputation through the Battle of Gettysburg. At the supreme crisis of that conflict, he had the courage, the military knowledge and the luck required to influence its outcome. Others might claim a similar accomplishment. But no one else also wrote a gripping, detailed narrative in which he relived his own experience writing the context of the entire battle. No other participant matched him as a combined actor-actor. The book contains the first detailed biographical sketch of the soldier. Moreover, it includes the bulk of his Civil War papers. Thirty-nine of the letters which Haskell wrote to his brothers in Portage, Wisconsin, still survive. Convinced of the historical importance of what he was doing, his letters demonstrate the courage, tenacity and commitment of the American soldier in combat. Only Haskell’s works have fully conveyed to successive generations the best available sense of what it was like to have been a participant – and a significant one at that – in the turning point of human history. Haskell wrote other letters and his papers encompassed much more than Gettysburg. Here annotated and published for the first time, he traced the campaigns of 1862 in which the legend of the Iron Brigade was born: Brawner Farm, South Mountain, Second Manassas, Antietam. Haskell attained the rank of Colonel before he was killed at Cold Harbor on June 3, 1864. THIS BOOK IS IN FINE - CONDITION Only 2500 copies of this limited edition book were printed. This original, 114-year old, antique book is in excellent condition. The exterior has no bumping or discernible edge wear. The book is in fine condition otherwise. The interior is clean and the pages are in excellent condition. There is a prior owner name written at the top of the front end page as shown. There is no other writing in the book. The book is free of any smudging, foxing, pasteboards, stamps or other markings. It is not an ex-library book. The book contains a frontispiece, portrait illustration of the author, Frank Aretas Haskell, Colonel of the Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Infantry, and contains two battle maps of Gettysburg, one for July 2 and one for July 3. The book is solidly bound throughout; it has no looseness or lean and both hinges and all binding are solid. The book contains 23 pages of introductory material and 185 pages of other text. This excellent condition, antique books provides one of the finest first-hand accounts of the Battle of Gettysburg. Track Page Views WithAuctiva's FREE Counter

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