| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates. By Glenn W. LaFantasie. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxxiv, 414 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-517458-8).
For many, the battle of Gettysburg remains the turning point of the Civil War and the heroics of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at Little Round Top, the key to Union success in July 1863. While Chamberlain found glory at Gettysburg, his vanquished counterpart, William C. Oates, remained mired in relative obscurity— until now. With Gettysburg Requiem, the historian Glenn W. LaFantasie has made up for 143 years of historical neglect and, in doing so, delivers an insightful biography that cuts across battle lines and brings the reader into the heart and mind of a mid-nineteenthcentury Southern soul.	1
LaFantasie draws a stirring portrait of a self- made man who cobbled together an education despite years of abuse, illness, and poverty. As a young adult, Oates was a womanizer, a brawler, and a raconteur. Still, he managed to pass the bar and practiced law in Alabama until secession.	. . .

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