Gettysburg--The Second Day

The second day’s fighting at Gettysburg — the assault of the Army of Northern Virginia against the Army of the Potomac on 2 July 1863 — was probably the critical engagement of that decisive battle and, therefore, among the most significant actions of the Civil War.

Harry Pfanz, a former historian at Gettysburg National Military Park, has written a definitive account of the second day’s brutal comba...