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See to Gettysburg brings the bloodiest, most crucial fight of the Civil Conflict alive through on-the-spot eyewitness accounts. From the courageous fighting men and officers to the civilians watching as the discord raged through their towns, from the reporters traveling with the regiments to the children excited or terrified by the titanic episode unfolding before them, each profile stems from personal experience and blends with the complete to make a startlingly stunning tapestry of war. Within their own words, and through the sight of their closest aides, such commanders as Robert E. Lee, Jeb Stuart, George Meade, and Abner Doubleday emerge as memorable, living men. So does the seventy-year-old Gettysburg citizen John Uses up, who signed up with a Union regiment when the rebels angered him by driving a car away his dairy cows, was three times wounded, and emerged from the fight a countrywide hero. This is eyewitness history at its best. Richard Wheeler, an ex-marine, is the writer of numerous literature of military history, eleven which offer with different Civil Conflict campaigns and fights, including Voices of the Civil Conflict, victor of the Civil Conflict Round Desk of New York's Fletcher Pratt Honor. He is also the writer of Voices of 1776: THE STORYPLOT of the American Revolution in the Words of Those Who Were There.
