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To Gettysburg and beyond
the parallel lives of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Edward Porter Alexander
By Golay, Michael
- ISBN
- 978-0-51759-285-4
- Publisher
- New York : Crown Publishers, c1994.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 15, 1994
Chamberlain, a literature professor who framed his world in terms of honor and nobility, enlisted in the Union Army from boredom and quickly mastered the art of war. Alexander, a West Point-trained engineer, was a pragmatic problem solver who became, arguably, the ablest artillery officer of the Confederacy. Both men fought with distinction in many battles, and both have attracted recent biographers (Alice R. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
