Friday, June 28, 2013

A Great Battlefield »

A Great Battlefield »:
Robert E. Lee, George Meade
Robert E. Lee, George Meade
A century and a half later, the battle of Gettysburg’s place in the national consciousness is so secure that you think of it as inevitable: the great contest of arms toward which all the previous battles of the Civil War had been leading. Thus, all that came before the breaking of Pickett’s Charge was rising action, and all that followed, conclusion and denouement.