Killed in Action: Eyewitness Accounts of the Last Moments of 100 Union Soldiers Who Died at Gettysburg

At least 10,000 soldiers were killed or mortally wounded in the three-day Battle of Gettysburg. Over 5,000 of these were deaths suffered by Union officers and enlisted men. Using the sharp eyes and keen minds of the spectators who were on the scene, this book is an attempt to illustrate the last moments, hours, or days of 100 Federals who fell in that one engagement.