In the Thickest of the Fray: Mississippians at Gettysburg ─ In Their Own Words

by Joseph L. Owen and J. Douglas Ashton

The Magnolia State sent eleven infantry regiments and one artillery battery to Gettysburg. The individual memories were published in newspaper articles, written in diaries, and recorded in interviews throughout the lives of the veterans. This is the first book collecting the recollections of the common Mississippi soldiers who fought at Gettysburg and in the Pennsylvania Campaign. Tracking from the march to Pennsylvania, on each of the three days,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1945602279
• ISBN13: 9781945602276
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Fox Run Publishing
• Length: 330 Pages