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Tango01 | 03 Jan 2018 8:59 p.m. PST |
…Aftermath of a Battle "Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863) was the largest battle fought on the American continent. Remarkably few who study it contemplate what came after the armies marched away. Who would care for the tens of thousands of wounded? What happened to the thousands of dead men, horses, and tons of detritus scattered in every direction? How did the civilians cope with their radically changed lives? Gregory Coco's A Strange and Blighted Land. Gettysburg: The Aftermath of a Battle offers a comprehensive account of these and other issues. The late Coco was a park ranger at Gettysburg deeply interested in the battle and what was left in its wake. The Vietnam veteran who wrote well and often about the battle waxes eloquently about the carnage of war, its terrors and pain, its irreplaceable cost in human life and treasure, and the toll it took on the families who lost sons and husbands there. Arranged in a series of topical chapters, A Strange and Blighted Land begins with a tour of the battlefield, mostly through eyewitness accounts, of the death and destruction littering the sprawling landscape. Once the size and scope is exposed to readers, Coco moves on to discuss the dead of Gettysburg, North and South, how their remains were handled, and how and why the Gettysburg National Cemetery was established. The treatment of the wounded, Union and Confederate, was organized chaos. Every house and barn became of hospital or medical station, and the medical and surgical practices of the day were little short of compassionate torture. The author also discusses at length how prisoners were handled and the fate of the thousands of stragglers and deserters left behind once the armies left before concluding with the preservation efforts that culminated in the establishment of the Gettysburg National Military Park in 1895" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
donlowry | 04 Jan 2018 10:57 a.m. PST |
I have the book. Very interesting. |
Tango01 | 04 Jan 2018 11:25 a.m. PST |
Thanks for your guidance!. Amicalement Armand |
John the Greater | 04 Jan 2018 2:01 p.m. PST |
This is a great book. it is amazing and appalling to see what had to be done to clean up the wreckage of a huge battle. |
donlowry | 06 Jan 2018 9:43 a.m. PST |
They were still working at it four and 1/2 months later when Lincoln made his famous speech there. |
Tango01 | 06 Jan 2018 11:19 a.m. PST |
Incredible!… Amicalement Armand |
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