![]() ![]() Ewell, and indeed resented the very name of the Army of Northern Virginia, since fewer than half of its troops were from Virginia. Many officers from other states resented the fact that the choicest assignments went to Virginia generals such as A.P. ![]() ![]() a divided house in political respects” as it marches into Pennsylvania. Lee as commander of a “Virginia-besotted army. In “Gettysburg,” he now brings Clausewitz’s truism that war is “the continuation of politics by other means” down to the personal level, strongly suggesting that even as the guns roar, individual soldiers’ politics will affect how they fight. In a dozen previous books, such as his highly regarded “Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,” Guelzo has studied the politics and philosophy of American history, focusing more on what happened in men’s minds than on the battlefield. ![]() But his title at the college - director of Civil War era studies - makes clear that his franchise covers not just combat but everything about the war, and he exercises it fully in this rich, original work. He knows every street, every knoll and every gully. Guelzo has been positioned to scout the town and its surroundings as closely as anyone has ever done, even the soldiers who fought there and the authors who have written whole books about each turn in the three-day battle. As a professor at Gettysburg College, Allen C. ![]()
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