Publisher: Butternut and Blue Date of Publication: 1993 Binding: hardcover Edition: First Edition Condition: Near Fine/No Jacket Description: 0935523316 This is a very attractive red cloth Civil War hardback in Near Fine condition, no jacket. c1993, First Edition, date on title page as well as copyright page. "Ovewr a Wide, Hot...Crimson Plain". The cover is very, very bright and clean.The gilt lettering on the cover and the spine is very sharp. The edges, points and spine ends are very nice with practically no wear at all. There is a slight side page end wrinkle to a small area on some pages near the very back of the book. The book is flat and firm with tight &amp; unmarked pages, no names. 220 pages.

Over a Wide, Hot...Crimson Plain : The Struggle for the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg, July 2nd and 3rd, 1863

Christ, Elwood

History

Butternut & Blue

Over A Wide, Hot . . . Crimson Plain

Savas Beatie LLC

Few visitors to the Gettysburg battlefield take note of the peculiar grassy rise in the fields southeast of the town between Seminary and Cemetery ridges. It was there that the Bliss home and barn once stood, between the lines in a no-man’s-land during the largest battle of the Civil War. The 60-acre farm witnessed back-and-forth bloody clashes that began on the morning of July 2, 1863, as a fitful episode between skirmishers and ended in a small but important combat all its own. The fight played an oversized role in the overall battle and directly impacted the massive rolling Confederate assault later that afternoon.\nIn a bit more than 24 hours, the back-and-forth Bliss farm combat would attract at least 10 Union and Confederate regiments, draw heavy artillery fire, disrupt the seemingly unstoppable Confederate assault moving northward against Cemetery Ridge, and kill and wound hundreds of men. This study is based on official records, letters, diaries, and other unpublished archival sources. A new foreword by award-winning author and Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide James Hessler opens this facsimile edition, which originally appeared to great acclaim in a small print run in 1994.\nElwood Christ’s extraordinary “Over a Wide, Hot . . . Crimson Plain”: The Struggle for the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg, July 2nd and 3rd, 1863 remains the only book ever published on the subject.

“Over a Wide, Hot . . . Crimson Plain”: The Struggle for the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg, July 2nd and 3rd, 1863 (The Savas Beatie Essential Gettysburg, 1)

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Savas Beatie

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