Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War

Gettysburg

First edition
Author	Newt Gingrich William R. Forstchen
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Alternate history novel
Publisher	Thomas Dunne Books
Publication date	June 12, 2003
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	384 (1st edition)
ISBN	978-0-312-30935-0 (1st edition)
OCLC	51559226
Dewey Decimal	813/.6 21
LC Class	PS3557.I4945 G48 2003
Followed by	Grant Comes East

Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War is an alternate history novel written by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen.^[1][2] It was published in 2003 and became a New York Times bestseller. It is the first part in a trilogy in which the next books are respectively Grant Comes East and Never Call Retreat.

Plot summary[]

The story takes place in 1863 when Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia are victorious at the Battle of Gettysburg instead of the United States. Instead of attacking the Union line on July 2, 1863, Lee conducts a broad turning movement and forces the Army of the Potomac to attack him in a favorable position. Gettysburg becomes something of a footnote in the main battle, which takes place at Union Mills in Maryland. The defeat at Union Mills is a grave setback to the United States, but it by no means spells the end of the war or determines its outcome and the United States still has a lot of fight in it.

In this, the book takes an opposing view to the classic Bring the Jubilee published in 1953 - precisely fifty years before the present book - which assumes that a defeat in Gettysburg would have led to a complete defeat and catastrophic collapse of the North.

Historical figures[]

Union[]

• President Abraham Lincoln
• Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
• General-in-Chief Henry Halleck
• Commanding General George Meade
• General Winfield Scott Hancock
• General John Buford †
• General William Gamble (POW)
• General Herman Haupt
• General Henry Jackson Hunt
• General Daniel Butterfield
• General Daniel Sickles
• General John Reynolds †
• General Adelbert Ames †
• General Oliver O. Howard
• General Gouverneur K. Warren
• General Strong Vincent †
• General Carl Schurz
• General Abner Doubleday (POW)
• Colonel Hiram Berdan
• Colonel Joshua Chamberlain (POW)
• Captain Hubert Dilger

Confederacy[]

• Commanding General Robert E. Lee
• General James Longstreet
• General Richard S. Ewell
• General Jubal Early
• General Bradley Johnson
• General A. P. Hill
• General John Bell Hood
• General J. E. B. Stuart
• General Henry Heth
• General Jerome B. Robertson
• General George Pickett
• General Lewis Armistead
• General George T. Anderson
• General Evander M. Law
• General Isaac R. Trimble †
• General Robert E. Rodes †
• Colonel Edward Porter Alexander
• Major Walter H. Taylor
• Major Jedediah Hotchkiss
• Major John Williamson

See also[]

• American Civil War alternate histories

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