At Gettysburg - What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A True NarrativeBy Tillie Pierce Alleman
Length2h 3m
About this audiobook
At Gettysburg: What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle is a vivid eyewitness memoir that renders the Civil War's most consequential battle through the perceptions of a young civilian woman. Rather than offering a strategist's panorama, Tillie Pierce Alleman records the terror, confusion, spectacle, and moral shock of battle as it invaded domestic space. Its plainspoken yet dramatic style belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of personal reminiscence, but its value lies in its intimate attention to sound, movement, suffering, and the uneasy transformation of homes and farms into hospitals. Tillie Pierce was a teenager living in Gettysburg when the armies converged in July 1863. Sent away from town for safety, she found herself near the fighting and later among the wounded, where she witnessed both battlefield horror and acts of endurance. Writing years afterward, Alleman shaped memory into testimony, preserving a perspective often excluded from official military histories: that of women and civilians whose lives were abruptly absorbed into war. This book is highly recommended for readers of Civil War history, women's history, memoir, and eyewitness literature. It offers an indispensable human counterpoint to military accounts, reminding us that Gettysburg was not only fought by armies but endured by a community.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length2 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 17, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Recollections of the Civil War (Annotated)
2PREFACE.
3CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
4CHAPTER II. INCIDENTS PRECEDING THE BATTLE.
5CHAPTER III. DURING THE FIRST DAY OF THE BATTLE.
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6CHAPTER IV. DURING THE SECOND DAY OF THE BATTLE
7CHAPTER V. DURING THE THIRD DAY OF THE BATTLE.
8CHAPTER VI. AFTER THE BATTLE.
9CHAPTER VII. HOME.
10CHAPTER VIII. CONCLUSION.
11Memorable Quotes
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