"Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children": John Reynolds’ I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 (John Michael Priest - GC) gun plaque including the formidably prickly King

including the formidably prickly King and the inscrutable FDR

8 inches in height

A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era

Sharing little more than the conviction that slavery was wrong

Sherman instead marched to Goldsboro

"Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children": John Reynolds’ I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 (John Michael Priest - GC) gun plaque including the formidably prickly Kingby John Michael Priest The fighting on the first day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, was heavy, confusing, and decisive. Much of it consisted of short and often separate simultaneous engagements or firefights, a term the soldiers themselves often used to describe the close, vicious, and bloody combat. Several books have studied this important inaugural day of Gettysburg, but none have done so from the perspective of the rank and file of both armies. John