TY - BOOK AU - Mackowski,Chris AU - White,Kristopher D. AU - Davis,Daniel T. TI - Fight like the devil: the first day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863 T2 - Emerging Civil War Series SN - 9781611212280 AV - E475.53 U1 - 973.7/349 23 PY - 2015/// CY - El Dorado Hills, California PB - Savas Beatie KW - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 KW - Bataille de Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Penns., 1863 KW - HISTORY KW - United States KW - State & Local KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Pennsylvania KW - Gettysburg KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references; The campaign -- First shots -- Fight like the devil -- Herbst Woods -- The death of John Reynolds -- The railroad cut -- Oak Hill -- Oak Ridge -- The XI Corps arrives -- Collapse -- The brickyard -- The key to the battlefield -- Cemetery Hill N2 - Do not bring on a general engagement, Confederate General Robert E. Lee warned his commanders. The Army of Northern Virginia, slicing its way through south-central Pennsylvania, was too spread out, too vulnerable, for a full-scale engagement with its old nemesis, the Army of the Potomac. Too much was riding on this latest Confederate invasion of the North. Too much was at stake. As Confederate forces groped their way through the mountain passes, a chance encounter with Federal cavalry on the outskirts of a small Pennsylvania crossroads town triggered a series of events that quickly escalated be UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1014335 ER -