A comprehensive examination of the iconic Civil War battle, its tragic outcome, and the personalities involved
Earl J. Hess is the Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee. Hess is the author of many studies of the Civil War, including Pickett's Charge: The Last Attack at Gettysburg, a Pultizer Prize nominee and winner of the James I. Robertson Literary Prize, and Lee's Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade, winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman Award. His recent books include In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat and The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth.
