July 1, 1863, had gone poorly for the Union army\'s XI Corps.
Picking up on the heels of its companion volume, Stay and Fight It Out: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863--Culp\'s Hill and the Northern End of the Battlefield they recount the often-overlooked Fight that secured the Union position and set the stage for the battle\'s fateful final day..
Davis started their Gettysburg account in Don\'t Give an Inch: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863--from Little Round Top to Cemetery Ridge.
White, and Daniel T.
Authors Chris Mackowski, Kristopher D.
Confederates were all too willing to oblige.
Stay and Fight it out, one Union general counseled.
The ensuing struggle--every bit as desperate and with stakes every bit as high as the more-famous Fight at Little Round Top on the far end of the line--left the entire Union position in the balance.
The very men who, just the day before, broke the Union army resolved to break it once again.
Just then, the Army of Northern Virginia\'s vaunted Second Corps launched itself at the weakened Federal right.
As the Southern juggernaut rolled inexorably northward, Federal troops shifted away from Culp\'s Hill and Cemetery Hill to meet the threat.
July 2 saw a massive Confederate attack against the southernmost part of the line.
The Federal line also extended southward down Cemetery Ridge, forming what eventually became a long fishhook.
Reinforcements fortified the position, which extended eastward to include another key piece of high ground, Culp\'s Hill.
Shattered in battle North of the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, the battered and embarrassed unit ended the day hunkered at the crest of a cemetery-topped Hill south of the village.
July 1, 1863, had gone poorly for the Union army\'s XI Corps
