Comments on: Top 10 Gettysburg Books: A Civil War Bloggers’ Event

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Civil War Book Acquisitions: September 2011 | TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:11:03 +0000

[...] The book was also a selection of the History and Military Book Clubs. The book also came in at #8 on the Civil War Bloggers list of Top 10 Gettysburg books from several years [...]

By: Robert Grindrod

Robert Grindrod — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:41:38 +0000

How can there be a list of best books about Gettysburg that does not include Glenn Tucker’s “High Tide At Gettysburg”? Has this book been lost to this generation? I also have trouble taking seriously any list that includes a fictionalized account, especially one as popular and un-scholarly as Shaara’s.
A movies and popular sales do not, in my opinion make that book worthy of a place on a list of books about Gettysburg, especially when the listers overlook Tucker.

By: Cyrus C Dodd

Cyrus C Dodd — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:53:11 +0000

If you like Gettysburg history then you should read; Nine Months to Gettysburg: Stannard’s Vermonters and the Repulse of Pickett’s Charge
by Howard Coffin. It starts out rather slow but ends well and I guess I’m a little bias as my Gr Gr Grandfather fought with the 13th Vermont.

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