| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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Richard A. Sauers. Gettysburg: The Meade-Sickles Controversy. Dulles, Va.: Brassey's. 2003. Pp. xii, 207. $24.95.

A researcher thoroughly familiar with the writings on the battle of Gettysburg, Richard A. Sauers turns his focus on one of the aspects of the engagement that will interest students of the campaign. On July 2, 1863, General Daniel E. Sickles, a controversial New York politician and one of the Federal political generals to reach and hold command of an army corps, led his unit well forward of the Union position on Cemetery Ridge. Sauers examines Sickles's decision and contrasts it with the orders from his superior, General George G. Meade, commander of the Army of the Potomac. Sauers demonstrates that Meade intended to have Sickles extend the Federal defensive line below the town and anchor it by occupying a prominent hill, Little Round Top, one of the important terrain features on the battlefield. Sauers develops a persuasive argument that instead Sickles disregarded Meade's orders, failed to understand the hill's significance, and moved troops in his corps too far forward nearer the Confederate lines, stopping in a peach orchard and on a rise along the Emmitsburg Road.

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