The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War by Alan Axelrod PhD

Author:Alan Axelrod, PhD
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DK Publishing
Published: 2011-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

Day One: July 1, 1863

Brigadier General John Buford was a roughhewn Kentuckian who had already shown himself to be an outstanding cavalry commander under Pope and Hooker. When he reached Gettysburg, he immediately grasped the importance of holding the high ground called McPherson’s Ridge, just west of town. Buford had fought at Fredericksburg and had seen how the Confederates, secure on the heights around that town, had rained-down slaughter upon the Union army of Ambrose Burnside (see Chapter 12). At Gettysburg, he knew that he would be badly outnumbered, but he also knew that he would have the advantage of fighting from the high ground and that his men, equipped with breech-loading carbines, would have a distinct rate-of-fire advantage. Shorter and lighter than the infantry musket, the cavalryman’s breach-loading carbine was much faster to reload and fire than the traditional muzzle-loading muskets of the Confederate infantry.

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