The Guns at Gettysburg by Fairfax Downey

The Guns at Gettysburg by Fairfax Downey

In no battle of the Civil War did artillery play a more decisive role than it did at the Battle of Gettysburg. No factor contributed more to the Union victory than the superior handling of the Federal cannons during the battle. Amid all the discusions of the errors of generalship on both sides, too little credit has been given to that all but forgotten hero of the battle General Henry Hunt. In reappraising and retelling the battle from the artilleryman's point of view, Colonel Downey has made a real contribution to our understanding of the reasons for the Confederate failure to crush the Army of the Potomac.