A matchless account of the Battle of Gettysburg, drawn from Shelby Foote’s landmark history of the Civil War Shelby Foote’s monumental three-part chronicle, The Civil War: A Narrative, was hailed by Walker Percy as “an unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist.” Here is the central chapter of the central volume, and therefore the capstone of the arch, in a single volume. Complete with detailed maps, Stars in Their Courses brilliantly recreates the three-day conflict: It is a masterly treatment of a key great battle and the events that preceded it—not as legend has it but as it really was, before it became distorted by controversy and overblown by remembered glory.

The Star of Gettysburg, published in 1915, covers the period from October 1862 through July of 1863, including the battles of Fredericksburg (11-15 Dec 1862), Chancellorsville (30 Apr-6 May 1863), and Gettysburg (1-3 Jul 1863). In this volume, written from the Confederate point of view, Harry Kenton is the main character.

The Star of Gettysburg

Joseph A. Altsheler was an American author and newspaper reporter best known for writing historical fiction. ...