Author: W. J. Tancig
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 86
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"Wars and battles, in historical retrospect, are habitually described in terms of grand strategy, local tactics, and the immortality of generals. Mere soldiers are kneaded into a faceless dough of conflict and consigned to oblivion. Requiem, however, tells their story. It is the tale of ordinary soldiers -- the hours, the miles, the comradeship, the endless waiting, and the loneliness of battle. The story leads you, as a purveyor of history, back in time of a war of somber blue and ageless grey; to a war which turned boys into men and men into corpses. Requiem opens on today's tourist road, near a picnic grove where the restless Rebel battalions once waited to stake their country and lives on an extraordinary act of valor. Sweep away the years to 1863, when Southern troops slogged North toward a Pennsylvania crossroad that would anguish for three burning July days. The victor would be exhausted and vanquished perilously wounded. W.J. Tancig deftly relates the events of that march, and its culmination in the decisive battle of Gettysburg. From old files, he has retrieved names of men who were there -- men with rifles in their hands. Go with them and their venerable regiments, and share the days, the determination and despair. With one minor exception, all incidents are historically correct. Development is chronologically accurate"--Jacket.
