Lee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light of the Official Records

A careful, record-based examination of a pivotal Civil War battle and the contested decisions of one senior commander; combines official records, contemporary testimony, and the commander’s own accounts to reconstruct operations, including the second day’s actions and a famous infantry assault, and to rebut critics. It interleaves campaign analyses with biographical material, sketches of earlier and later engagements, facsimile letters and transcriptions, and a concluding appendix of tributes and correspondence. The author aims to clarify disputed points of tactics and memory while presenting a chronological narrative of movements, reports from participants, and reflections on the commander’s life and military career.