Better to Be a Prisoner Than a Corpse

Author(s):  
David Silkenat
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This chapter builds on the previous one to examine the Battle of Gettysburg through the lens of the soldiers who surrendered. More soldiers ended up captured at Gettysburg than killed. The chapter explores all three days of the battle, Lee's retreat, and the fate of some of the soldiers who surrendered.

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele B. Hill ◽  
Gregory L. Brack ◽  
Jennifer Dean

1959 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-120
Author(s):  
Arthur P. Wade
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2003 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Grimsley

Worldview ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Ross K. Baker

In 1913, when Woodrow Wilson was assuming the duties of President of the United States, Joseph Stalin was in exile in Siberia and Lenin in Galicia. When Union and Confederate veterans were meeting to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and Henry Ford was about to set up the first modern assembly line, the newly established Union of South Africa promulgated the Natives Land Act. A world preoccupied with the decay of great empires and apprehensive about the onset of world conflict was only dimly aware of this law enacted in a distant corner of a remote continent. The law prescribed the apportionment of territory of the Union into areas of exclusive settlement by whites and blacks.


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