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The Civil War generation saw its world in ways startlingly different from our own. In these essays, Glenn W. LaFantasie examines the lives and experiences of several key personalities who gained fame during the war and after. The battle of Gettysburg is the thread that ties these Civil War lives together. Gettysburg was a personal turning point, though each person was affected differently. Largely biographical in its approach, the book captures the human drama of the war and shows how this group of individuals—including Abraham Lincoln, James Longstreet, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, William C. Oates, and others—endured or succumbed to the war and, willingly or unwillingly, influenced its outcome. At the same time, it shows how the war shaped the lives of these individuals, putting them through ordeals they never dreamed they would face or survive.
- Sales Rank: #3634152 in eBooks
- Published on: 2008-02-05
- Released on: 2008-02-05
- Format: Kindle eBook
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"Glenn LaFantasie is one of the finest writers in the field of Civil War history. His prose is accessible, pleasurable to read, and always insightful and provocative... this book should excite a lot of interest." —Joan Waugh, editor of The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture
(Joan Waugh, editor of The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture 2008)
"Gettysburg Heroes offers concise and clear stories of soldiers, civilians, generals and presidents.... Bring[ing] us a little closer to the truth about the battle of Gettysburg and how it has become an oracle for this nation." —Civil War Librarian, April 4, 2008
(Civil War Librarian 2008)
"We continually hear that the Gettysburg subject has been exhausted. Glenn LaFantasie proves this wrong. Beautifully written and splendidly researched Gettysburg Heroes is a delight to read." —D. Scott Hartwig
(2008)
"Gettysburg is more than a pivotal battlefield for Americans. It has also, in its way, become something of a national Pantheon. For American heroes have trod that ground, both those who fought there, and those who came after to learn and remember. Warriors like Generals James Longstreet and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, share that field with Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, and Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery. In a stimulating series of essays, Glenn LaFantasie looks at all of them in Gettysburg Heroes, examining not only why they came and what they did, but also the impact this hallowed ground had upon them and all Americans." —William C. Davis, author of An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government and The Union that Shaped the Confederacy
(William C. Davis, author of An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government and The Union that Shaped the Confederacy )
"LaFantasie has written in a lucid, easy-to-understand manner... highly recommended." —Daily News (Bowling Green, KY), July 13, 2008
(Daily News (Bowling Green, KY) )
"Glenn LaFantasie flat out knows how to write Civil War history!" —Richard N. Larsen, The MidWest Book Review
(Richard N. Larsen The MidWest Book Review )
"Well-researched, Gettysburg Heroes makes a genuine contribution in the field of the Civil War in thought and memory, and specifically the significance of Gettysburg itself." —Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Spring 2008
(Register of the Kentucky Historical Society )
"[T]his is a superb collection of essays by an outstanding scholar reflecting on America's obsession with the battle of Gettysburg and 'perfect heroes.'" —The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 76, No. 3
(The Journal of Southern History )
From the Publisher
"We continually hear that the Gettysburg subject has been exhausted. Glenn LaFantasie proves this wrong. Beautifully written and splendidly researched Gettysburg Heroes is a delight to read." --D. Scott Hartwig
"Gettysburg is more than a pivotal battlefield for Americans. It has also, in its way, become something of a national Pantheon. For American heroes have trod that ground, both those who fought there, and those who came after to learn and remember. Warriors like Generals James Longstreet and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, share that field with Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, and Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery. In a stimulating series of essays, Glenn LaFantasie looks at all of them in Gettysburg Heroes, examining not only why they came and what they did, but also the impact this hallowed ground had upon them and all Americans." --William C. Davis, author of An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government and The Union that Shaped the Confederacy
"Glenn LaFantasie is one of the finest writers in the field of Civil War history. His prose is accessible, pleasurable to read, and always insightful and provocative . . . this book should excite a lot of interest." --Joan Waugh, co-editor of The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture
About the Author
Glenn W. LaFantasie is Richard Frockt Family Professor of Civil War History at Western Kentucky University. He is author of Twilight at Little Round Top and Gettysburg Requiem: The Life of William C. Oates. He lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Gettysburg's Flawed Heroes
By Civil War Librarian
Gettysburg Heroes: Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed Ground, Glenn W. LaFantasie, Indiana University Press, 2008, 279 pp., index, endnotes, $24.95.
"Perfect heroes were conspicuously absent from the field of Gettysburg, as they are from every battlefield, every war. Every soldier, nevertheless, likes to think his is perfect," LaFantasie states that the subtitle of his work is meant to be ironic. The author reviews the passing of certain soldiers through the battle of Gettysburg and the history of their interpretations. Longstreet, Chamberlain, Haskell, Oates, Lincoln, Eisenhower, Montgomery, as well as LaFanatasie and his daughter Sarah, have each passed through a Gettysburg experience and some have encountered it several times.
"By and by, out of the chaos of trash and falsehood that newspapers hold, out of the disjointed mass of reports, out of the traditions and tales that come down from the field, some eye that never saw the battle will select[,] and some will write[,] what will be named the history. With that the world will be --and if we are alive we must be--content." Haskell, recognized as one of the finest soldier-writers of Gettysburg primary sources, is quoted by LaFantasie to explain the business of sorting the various interpretations of the battle. The 145 year construction effort by participants and historians to describe and explain the battle has produced a plethora of writing. Personally, CWL shied away from this book for that reason, but after reading the first chapter LaFantasie won this reader over. CWL also had a similar experience with Twilight at Little Round Top: avoidance until reading the book and then a regret when it was over.
On Longstreet, LaFantasie reconciles Lee's 'Old Warhorse' with McLaw's 'A Humbug' sieves the man and his reputations. Evaluating Longstreet during his Mexican War, his Civil War and and his post-war careers, the author understands Longstreet to be a natural warrior whose finest moments occurred in combat as a steady and dependable soldier who had unpolished manners and a high degree of ambition. At times, he would be viewed as disrespectful to authority and abusive to his subordinates, especially in the eyes and by the pen of Jubal Early, a Lee defender and a writer of the 'Lost Cause' interpretation of the war.
Among the highlights in Gettysburg Heroes: Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed Groundis the chapter on Frank Haskell and the creation of his Gettysburg memoir which was actually a consciously drafted long letter home. Several chapters describe the several war time and post-war collisions between Joshua Chamberlain, 20th Maine, and William Oates, 15th Alabama; and in several more chapters, William Oates, as a fugitive from the law, as a Confederate captain and colonel, as a lawyer and politician, and as an historian is revealed to be quite similar to Longstreet. Both Confederates were warriors, who at times were ill-mannered, abrasive sentimentalists and as soldier-writers hda selective and creative memories. In particular LaFantasie explains Oates creation, distribution and further enhancement of the false story of Union Brigadier General Farnsworth's suicide on July 3rd during a cavalry charge between Bushman's Hill and the Slyder Farm. In this eighth chapter, LaFantasie reveals subtle themes that appear tangential throughout this book: how successful were soldier-writers when they wrote history? How is evidence created and how is it handled and mishandled? The misreporting by an eye-witness of a battlefield death, the addition of details to this report, the telling, re-telling and finally being offered as history is thread throughout the book. These themes appear tangential but at the close of the book they are fully set before the reader.
The battlefield and the park have their histories created by warriors, veterans, and the national park service. LaFantasie lays before the reader "the number of egregious errors" the NPS has made, including the building of the visitors center ('a drum on its side') on the Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble Charge site, granting permission the National Tower to be built in the midst of the battlefield, and giving to Gettysburg College a portion of the battlefield and then watching the portion bulldozed.
In the last chapter, LaFantasie places in context Chamberlain's, now famous "'In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays.' paragraph. For author Bruce Catton 'echoes are felt' and not heard LaFantasie remarks. LaFantasie and his daughter walk the ground of the battlefield and written wartime reports are examined against the terrain. On the rocks contested by the Maine soldiers and the Alabamians, the author, as a young man, became reconciled to the early death of his father. Near the same location, LaFantasie's daughter Sarah asks him, "Did you feel it?" and he has no idea what she is talking about. She says "I feel something." Something nameless, something intangible, some emotional fog or shadow that made her feel sad. Later the author recalls that it was there, on the southeast slope of Little Round Top and near the 20th Maine monument, that he had released his own sadness over his father's death.
"Our pasts are locked inside us" and the past is not always tangible and knowable. "But sometimes it can be seen and sometimes it can be felt. . . . . On a misty spring day, across the lush fields and hills of Gettysburg, my daughter and I felt the far-reaching echoes of our past." LaFantasie's conclusion underscores Chamberlain's remarks concerning how spirits linger at Gettysburg and consecrate the ground as an oracle, a vision-place, for souls of flawed heroes.
Glenn LaFantasie continues to draw readers into the story of Gettysburg. By turns very direct and very subtle, Gettysburg Heroes offers concise and clear stories of soldiers, civilians, generals and presidents. Those who lived through the battle and returned, or came to Gettysburg after the battle, found that their personal pasts were locked both within the battlefield and within themselves. The Gettysburg battlefield both wounds and heals us, and at times allows us to hide within its story and then reveals us to ourselves. As William Faulkner said, "The past is not dead. It has not even passed." The truth make us transparent to others and ourselves. Well written history does the same. LaFantasie's writing brings us a little closer to the truth about the battle of Gettysburg and how it has become an oracle for this nation.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Perfect Heroes
By Robin Friedman
I found this book after reading a satirical novel about the foibles of the contemporary United States. The author had little good to say. I also wanted to remind myself of one of the seminal moments of American history in the face of our current turmoil. People often find the books they need. I was fortunate in my choice of "Gettyburg Heroes: Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed Ground (2008), a collection of related essays by Glenn LaFantasie. Professor of History at Western Kentucky University, LaFantasie has written extensively and well about the Civil War, with a focus on the storied action at Little Round Top on July 2, 1863, the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. His study of Little Round Top, Twilight at Little Round Top: July 2, 1863--The Tide Turns at Gettysburg and his unusual biography of William Oates, who lead the futile attack against Chamberlain and the 20th Maine at the far left of Little Round Top, Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates are valuable reading for those interested in Gettysburg.
Although it includes a great deal of historical and biographical information, "Gettysburg Heroes" is more a personal reflection about the Civil War and the writing of biography and history and a meditation about the meaning of the Battle of Gettysburg. The book doubles back upon itself. LaFantasie tells the reader that the term "perfect" soldiers is used ironically. After the Battle of Gettysburg, Americans tended to inflate its participants to the status of Homeric heroes, larger than life. LaFantasie wants to show how the story of their exploits grew over time with the telling, how some events were exaggerated or misremembered, and how in their petty ambitions and mistakes, the "perfect" Gettysburg heroes were very human indeed. The tendency to inflate Gettysburg and the bravery of its participants tends as well to downplay the appalling human suffering, the rampant death, pain, and destruction of the battle. All this is true. Yet, as I read LaFantasie's book, my sense was still that Gettysburg was an extraordinary moment and its participants, for all their humanity and flaws, "perfect", as Walt Whitman might have used the term. LaFantasie has struggled with the significance of Gettysburg. He treats the battle and its participants with reverence as he tries to explain the iconic character the battle has assumed.
In the series of fourteen essays, LaFantasie focuses on the lives of several participants at Gettysburg, including Confederate General James Longstreet (the shortest and weakest section of the book), Frank Haskell, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, President Abraham Lincoln, and, at a distance, LaFantasie himself. Frank Haskell was an aide to Union General John Gibbon. He was in the middle of the action during Pickett's charge at the Union center on July 3, 1863, and was subsequently killed at Cold Harbor. In the form of a letter to his brother, Haskell wrote a moving account of Pickett's charge and his role in it which remains a key account of the battle even though today it is mostly read only by specialists. The Battle of Gettysburg: A Soldier's First-Hand Account LaFantasie explains how Haskell's account inflated his own role (important though it was) in the repulse of Pickett's charge. Yet the overall impression is of a heroic individual who described in revealing prose an extraordinary event.
Chamberlain and Oates were opponents in the fight for the extreme left of Little Round Top on July 2, 1863. The importance given to Chamberlain's role in the battle has changed over the years, but it was immortalized in Scharra's novel, "The Killer Angels". The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War
In a series of essays, LaFantasie examines Chamberlain's long life before, during, and after Little Round Top. As do many other students, LaFantasie finds that Chamberlain tended towards self-promotion and towards exaggerating his very real accomplishments in defending Little Round Top. Chamberlain still deserves his stature as a hero in this account. The essay, "Joshua Lawerence Chamberlain and the American Dream" will encourage reflection of Chamberlain's ideals and his significance.
Oates, the commander of the 15th Alabama, lived a long and difficult life, pulling himself from poverty and adversity to become a successful attorney and, after the Civil War, a Congressman and the Governor of Alabama. LaFantasie describes how Oates's experience at Little Round Top remained the focus of his long life, including a dispute with Chamberlain about the action on Little Round Top 40 years after the battle. LaFantasie has shown why, with all his faults, Oates too deserves to be remembered.
In a short series of essays, LaFantasie discusses Lincoln's relationship with General Meade, commander of the Union Army at Gettysburg, and his Gettysburg Address. The Address, LaFantasie argues, hallowed Gettysburg and changed the way Americans say the meaning of the Battle and of the United States. LaFantasie's discussion will encourage reflection on the ideals, if not always the accomplishments, of the United States towards freedom, democracy and equality. In essays describing his personal experiences and visits to Gettysburg, LaFantasie expands movingly upon his reflections about the battlefield and its heroes and of how they have come to form part of his own life and understanding of himself.
This book takes seriously the United States, the Battle of Gettysburg, and its participants. It is a reflection on the continues meaning of the Battle and its "perfect" heroes as our country continues to struggle to define itself. It helped me understand the United States better as something of an antidote to the irreverant, satirical novel which disturbed me.
Robin Friedman
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Lack of research proves fatal to Longstreet essay
By Old Warhorse
Glen W. LaFantasie has done it again. He managed to misread and trash one of the South's greatest generals...again.
His essay on Longstreet begins and ends with misinterpretations of events in Longstreet's life. His perchance for quoting Longstreet detractors doesn't enhance his work either.
For example, LaFantasie quote's a conversation between Gen. Longstreet and his old servant and about how the servant said "Something must have scared you mighty bad to change you from what you was when I had to care for you." Lafantasie trys to persuade us that this is evidence of Longstreet's lifelong aposty. In reality, the servant was just commenting on how Longstreet had changed from being a young ruffian with little religious bent to a more subdued pious senior citizen. I don't see how you can read anything other than that in the old servant's statement. Then Lafantasie quotes from McLaw's well-known "humbug" letter, but doesn't tell you that Mclaws wrote other letters stating what a good soldier James Longstreet was.
Furthermore, the whole disloyalty thing is blown way out of proportion by Wert which, of course, gives Lafantasie and ilk more fodder for their pee-shooting quotations. Heck, all (thousands) who quit the US Army to go South were techincally traitors. So why is Longstreet being singled out for special treatment in that regard. Besides, it was customary for soldiers (officers) who resigned from the Army to wait a few days and then move off and not wait for a comfirmation on the resignation. Does anyone know of a resignation that was turned down? But Wert likes to spice his narratives with a little dark drama, so why not put Longstreet on the spot. After all, he's been trashed by just about everybody else. So, does Lafansie's work deserve a better rating? Yes, IF he had done some original research on his own and not just quoted others and then making (sometimes ridiculous) inaccurate statements in his work.
Lafantasie has a good narrative style. He speaks well and the dialogue flows well, but he trips on the facts. Sorry, Glen. Forget about the bucks for once and try to get it right for a change.
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