Cashtown During the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863

Description: Cashtown During the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 ----- Written by Suzanne Mickley Youngblood ---------------------------------------------- Rock Top Book Shop - Revised Edition, 2022 ---------------------------------------------- Softcover : Brand New, 2022 Printing 70 pages : 3 maps and over 40 photos / portraits <<< Limited to 1,000 copies >>>================================ Cashtown During the Gettysburg Campaign was compiled and written by Cashtown resident Suzanne Mickley Youngblood in advance of the 150th anniversary of the battle, in 2013. Unfortunately, there were some issues between Ms. Youngblood and the original publisher (now out of business) including leaving out the map in the back of the book. As a result, a limited number were sold but many were taken out of circulation. Today, it has become a very scare book.Until now ! The Rock Top Book Shop, located in Cashtown, PA, has received permission from Ms. Youngblood to reprint her book - with a few changes to things she was unhappy with in the 2013 edition. She was kind enough to provide us with the original files, which has kept the quality of the photos from going a generation away from the originals - a huge step above having the scan a printed copy for reprinting !Ms. Youngblood's work briefly covers the early history of the Cashtown area ( as legend has it - so named because early Inn Keeper Peter Marck insisted on cash payments, no credit or "tabs"). The real meat of the book is all about the effects of the campaign on local farms and businesses. Many barns were used as Confederate Hospitals, some houses were commandeered as was the Cashtown Inn, and local crops and livestock were taken by the Army of Northern Virginia under command of General Robert E. Lee. Well illustrated with turn of the century photos taken by locally well known photographer C.C. Kuhn, and maps from the Adams County Atlas of 1872 - this work has first rate imagery. We will be the only source for this book, at our two used book shops in Cashtown. The list price for the book is $12, and we are adding $7 to cover postage and fees. Between eBay fees (based on sale price, postage and sales tax) and the Post Office, we lose over $7 per book out of the $19 listing price. At a list price of just $12, we're just trying to not lose too much money on this.===================================Thank you for supporting independent booksellers ! (not bulk resellers who don't know the first thing about what they are selling !) I pride myself on knowing my stock, accurate descriptions, and good packing !!! The Rock Top Book Shop and Bindery Cashtown, Pennsylvania ====================================== Thanks for Looking !!! ---------------------------------------------------------- Postage is free (within Continental US - others at cost) either by media mail or priority depending upon the final sale price of the items(s). I always include delivery confirmation, and will insure more expensive packages at my cost. Check my other auctions for Civil War related books, documents, and ephemera, plus the occasional other book or curiosity - mostly military related. ====================================================== From the GettysburgPA.gove websiteThe Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's attempt to invade the North.After his success at Chancellorsville in Virginia in May 1863, Lee led his army through the Shenandoah Valley to begin his second invasion of the North—the Gettysburg Campaign. With his army in high spirits, Lee intended to shift the focus of the summer campaign from war-ravaged northern Virginia and hoped to influence Northern politicians to give up their prosecution of the war by penetrating as far as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, or even Philadelphia. Prodded by President Abraham Lincoln, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker moved his army in pursuit, but was relieved of command just three days before the battle and replaced by Meade.Elements of the two armies initially collided at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, as Lee urgently concentrated his forces there, his objective being to engage the Union army and destroy it. Low ridges to the northwest of town were defended initially by a Union cavalry division under Brig. Gen. John Buford, and soon reinforced with two corps of Union infantry. However, two large Confederate corps assaulted them from the northwest and north, collapsing the hastily developed Union lines, sending the defenders retreating through the streets of town to the hills just to the south.On the second day of battle, most of both armies had assembled. The Union line was laid out in a defensive formation resembling a fishhook. In the late afternoon of July 2, Lee launched a heavy assault on the Union left flank, and fierce fighting raged at Little Round Top, the Wheatfield, Devil's Den, and the Peach Orchard. On the Union right, Confederate demonstrations escalated into full-scale assaults on Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill. All across the battlefield, despite significant losses, the Union defenders held their lines.On the third day of battle, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12,500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge. The charge was repulsed by Union rifle and artillery fire, at great loss to the Confederate army.Lee led his army on a torturous retreat back to Virginia. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers from both armies were casualties in the three-day battle, the most costly in US history.On November 19, President Abraham Lincoln used the dedication ceremony for the Gettysburg National Cemetery to honor the fallen Union soldiers and redefine the purpose of the war in his historic Gettysburg Address.

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Location: Cashtown, Pennsylvania

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