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Pickett or Pettigrew? An Historical Essay

Chapter 1: PICKETT OR PETTIGREW?
By W. R. Bond
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The essay mounts a defense of a Confederate brigade commander and his troops by combining a preface and dedication with a biographical portrait, battlefield narrative, and documentary analysis. The author recounts the commander’s career, describes his unit’s movements and fighting, and compares casualty figures and official reports to challenge widely held accusations about their conduct in a major assault. Drawing on firsthand recollections, statistics, and published records, the pamphlet argues that misrepresentation and exigent battlefield losses, rather than dereliction, explain the brigade’s behavior and reputation.

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Title: Pickett or Pettigrew? An Historical Essay

Author: W. R. Bond

Release date: June 25, 2018 [eBook #57392]

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PICKETT OR PETTIGREW? AN HISTORICAL ESSAY ***

PICKETT OR PETTIGREW?

AN
HISTORICAL ESSAY,
[REVISED AND ENLARGED.]

BY

CAPT. W. R. BOND,
Sometime Officer Brigade Staff Army Northern Virginia.

“Tell the truth and the world will come to see it at last.”—Emerson.

SECOND EDITION.

Single copy, $ .25
Five copies, 1.00

W. L. L. HALL, Publisher.
Scotland Neck, N. C.

DEDICATION.

To the memory of the brave men of Hill’s Corps, who were killed while fighting under the orders of General Longstreet, on the afternoon of July 3rd, 1863; whose fame has been clouded by the persistent misrepresentations of certain of their comrades, this “little book” is affectionately dedicated.

W. R. B.

Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N. C.,
October, 1888.

Copyrighted 1888,
BY
W. W. HALL.

THE COMMONWEALTH JOB PRINT,
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C.