"Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children": John Reynolds’ I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 (John Michael Priest - GC) battlewalk but knowing

but knowing

Davis  (Author)

Winner of the coveted John Esten Cooke Award for Southern Fiction

Lorien Foote (Contributor)

Frederick Douglass was Black

"Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children": John Reynolds’ I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 (John Michael Priest - GC) battlewalk but knowingby 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