BRCWRT Field Trips: Gettysburg-The First Day, 17May 2003

BRCWRT Field Trips 2003

Suggested Reading List For
GETTYSBURG - THE FIRST DAY
Saturday 17 May 2003


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Campaign Overview

Coddington, Edwin B. The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1968.

Trudeau, Noah Andre. Gettysburg: A Testing Of Courage. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.

The First Day – General Works

Hassler, Warren W. Jr. Crisis at the Crossroads: The First Day at Gettysburg. 1970. GettysburgPA: Stan Clark Military Books, 1991.

Haines, Douglas. “R.S. Ewell’s Command, June 29-July 1.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 9 (1993):.

Luvaas, Jay & Harold W. Nelson ed. Guide to the Battle of Gettysburg, LawrenceKS: The University Press of Kansas, 1994.

Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg-The First Day. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

McPherson’s Ridge/RR Cut

Dawes, Rufus R. A Full Blown Yankee of the Iron Brigade: Service with The Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers. 1890. LincolnNebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Dougherty, James J. “A History of the McPherson Farm at Gettysburg.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 26 (July/2002): 20-44.

Dougherty, James J. “We Have Come to Stay!: The 143rd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry and the Fight for McPherson’s Ridge, July 1, 1863.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 24 (2001): 38-55.

Felton, Silas. “The Iron Brigade Battery at Gettysburg.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 11 (1994):.

Gaff, Alan D. “Here Was Made Out Our Last and Hopeless Stand: The ‘Lost’ Gettysburg Reports of the Nineteenth Indiana.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 2 (January/1990): 25-31.

Georg, Kathleen R. “Edward McPherson Farm: Historical Study” Planning & Resource Preservation, GettysburgNationalMilitaryPark. (Oct 14, 1977) [Available online at

Hadden, R. Lee. “The Deadly Embrace: The Meeting of the Twenty-fourth Regiment, Michigan Infantry and the Twenty-sixth Regiment of North Carolina Troops at McPherson’s Woods, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1863. The Gettysburg Magazine. 5 (July/1991): 19-33.

Haines, Douglas Craig. “A.P. Hill’s Advance to Gettysburg.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 5 (July/1991): 4-11.

Haines, Douglas Craig. “Lee’s Advance Along the Cashtown Road.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 23 (2000): 7-29.

Harris, Lt. Loyd G. “With the Iron Brigade Guard at Gettysburg.” Eds. Lance J. Herdegen and William J.K. Beaudot. The Gettysburg Magazine. 1 (July/1989): 29-34.

Hartwig, D. Scott. “The Defense of McPherson’s Ridge.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 1 (July/1989): 15-24.

Hartwig, D. Scott. “Guts and Good Leadership: The Action at the Railroad Cut, July 1 1863.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 1 (July/1989): 5-14.

Herdegen, Lance J. “For the Truth of History: July 1, 1863: The Charge On the Railroad Cut.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 20 (1998): 81-88.

Herdegen, Lance J. “Old Soldiers and War Talk: The Controversy over the Opening Infantry Fight at Gettysburg.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 2 (January/1990): 15-22.

Krumwiede, John F. “A July Afternoon On McPherson’s Ridge.” [Col. Stone’s Bucktail Brigade –2nd Bde. 3rd Div 1st Corps -- on 1 July 1863] The Gettysburg Magazine. 21 (1998): 21-44.

Long, Roger. “A Mississippian in the Railroad Cut.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 4 (1991):.

Nelson, L. Patrick. “Reynolds and the Decision to Fight.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 23 (2000): 30-50.

Sanders, Steve. “Enduring Tales of Gettysburg: The Death of Reynolds.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 14 (1996): -.

Storch, Marc and Beth. “What a Deadly Trap We Were In: Archer’s Brigade on July 1 1863.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 6 (1992): 13-28.

Storch, Marc and Beth. “Unpublished Gettysburg Reports by the 2nd and 7thWisconsin Infantry Regimental Officers.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 17 (1997): 20-25.

Winschel, Terrence J. “Part I: Heavy Was Their Loss: Joe Davis’s Brigade at Gettysburg” Part I. The Gettysburg Magazine. 2 (January/1990): 5-14.

Winschel, Terrence J. “Part II: Heavy Was Their Loss: Joe Davis’s Brigade at Gettysburg” Part I. The Gettysburg Magazine. 3 (January/1990): 5-14.

Wittenberg, Eric J. “John Buford and the Gettysburg Campaign.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 11 (1994):.

Oak Hill (Rodes’ Attacks)

Cameron, James L. “How Far on Oak Ridge? An Examination of the Planned Deployment of the Eleventh Corps, July 1 1863.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 27 (2003): 29-38.

Cooksey, Paul Clark, “They Died As If On Dress Parade: The Annihilation of Iverson’s Brigade at Gettysburg and The Battle of Oak Ridge.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 20 (1998): 89-112.

Griffin, Massy. “Rodes on Oak Hill: A Study of Rodes’ Division on the First Day of Gettysburg.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 4 (1991):.

Lash, Gary G. “Brigadier General Henry Baxter’s Brigade at Gettysburg, July 1.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 10 (1994):.

Patterson, Gerard A. “The Death of Iverson’s Brigade.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 5 (July/1991): 12-18.

Taylor, Michael W. “Ramseur’s Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign: A Newly Discovered Account by Capt. James I. Harris, Co. I, 30th Regt. N.C.T.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 17 (1997): 26-40.

Defeat of 11th Corps

Conklin, George W. “The Long March to Stevens Run: The 134thNew York Volunteer Infantry at Gettysburg. [Coster’s Brigade] The Gettysburg Magazine. 21 (1999): 45-56.

Dunkelman, H. and Michael J. Winey. “The Hardtack Regiment in the Brickyard Fight.” Coster’s Brigade] The Gettysburg Magazine. 8 (1993):17-30.

Hartwig, D. Scott. “The 11th Army Corps on July 1, 1863.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 2 (January/1990): 33-49.

Kepf, Kenneth M. “Dilger’s Battery at Gettysburg.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 4 (1991):

O’Brien, Kevin E. “Bullets Came as Thick as Hail: Krzyzanowski’s Brigade Defends the Union Right on July 1, 1863.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 24 (2001): 56-77.

Pula, James S. “The 26thWisconsin Volunteer Infantry at Gettysburg.” [Krzyanowski’s Brigade] The Gettysburg Magazine. 23 (2000): 76-87.

Pullen, John J. “The Gordon-Barlow Story, With Sequel.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 8 (1993): 5-7.

Swisher, James K. “Brig. Gen. George Doles and His Georgia Brigade on July 1, 1863, GettysburgPennsylvania.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 27 (2003): 39-51.

McPherson’s to Seminary Ridge

Dreese, Michael A. “The 151stPennsylvania volunteers at Gettysburg: July 1, 1863.” [Biddle’s Brigade]The Gettysburg Magazine. 23 (2000): 51-65.

Dreese, Michael A. “Ordeal in the Lutheran Theological Seminary: The Recollections of First LT. Jeremiah Hoffman, 142ndPennsylvania Volunteers.” [Biddle’s Brigade]The Gettysburg Magazine. 23 (2000): 101-110.

Gottfried, Bradley M. “To Fail Twice: Brockenbrough’s Brigade at Gettysburg.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 23 (2000): 66-75.

Miller, Michael. “Perrin’s Brigade on July 1, 1863.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 13 (1995):-.

O’Brien, Kevin E. “Give Them Another Volley, Boys: Biddle;s Brigade Defends the Union Left on July 1, 1863.” The Gettysburg Magazine. 19 (1998): -.

A Few Web Sites of Interest

Many photos, good maps, uneven short summary text.

Gettysburg Campaign Chronology

Not much detail on the battle but good outline of events during the campaign.

John Fulton Reynolds Website

For Reynolds groupies. Includes information on Miss Catherine Mary Hewitt “Dear Kate” Reynold’s fiance.

The Battle of Gettysburg Day One: July 1, 1863

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