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“Double Canister at Ten Yards”: The Federal Artillery and the Repulse of Pickett’s Charge, July 3, 1863

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Most accounts of Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg center of attention on General Robert E. Lee’s reasons for making the attack, its preparation, organization, and ultimate failure. Within the gripping study “Double Canister at Ten Yards”: The Federal Artillery and the Repulse of Pickett’s Charge, July 3, 1863, artillery expert David Shultz focuses his examination at the Union long-arm, and explains how and why General Henry Hunt and his gunners were in a position to overcome back the Confederate foot soldiers.

Shultz, who has studied Gettysburg for decades and walked each and every yard of its hallowed ground, uses official reports, letters, diaries, and other accounts to meticulously provide an explanation for how Hunt and his officers and men worked tirelessly at the night of July 2 and well into July 3 to prepare a lethal package of orchestrated destruction to greet the predicted assault. The war witnessed many large scale assaults and artillery bombardments, but no example of defensive gunnery used to be more destructive than the ring of direct frontal and full-flank enfilading fire Hunt’s batteries unleashed upon Lee’s men.

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