The Union generals speak

Louisiana State University Press

2003

xv, 428 pages

Schieffelin Collection

9780807125816

A nation divided --The major characters --Major General Daniel Edgar Sickles --Major General Abner Doubleday --Brigadier General Albion P. owe --Major General George Gordon Meade (first appearance) --Major General Alfred Pleasonton --Major General David Bell Birney --Major General ouverneur Kemble Warren --Brigadier General Andrew Atkinson Humphreys --Major General Winfield Scott Hancock --Brigadier General James Samuel adsworth --Major General Daniel Butterfield --Brigadier General John Gibbon --Major General George Gordon Meade (second appearance) --Brigadier eneral Henry Jackson Hunt --Major General John Sedgwick --Brigadier General Seth Williams --Brigadier General Samuel Wylie Crawford --The ommittee's eport --Meade on trial

The Union Generals Speak is the first annotated edition of the 1864 congressional investigation into Major General George Gordon Meade's conduct during the Gettysburg campaign. The transcripts alone, which present eyewitness accounts from sixteen participant officers at Gettysburg, offer a wealth of information about the what and the why of one of the most pivotal battles in American history; but it is the addition of contextual comments and background material by Bill Hyde that unleashes this virtually untapped resource for readers. Laden with ulterior motives, prejudices, faulty recollection, and outright lies, the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War's report is a minefield of inaccuracies. Hyde's comprehensive analysis, informed by recent scholarship, transforms it into an accessible, rewarding aid for students of the Gettysburg chapter in the Civil War.

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