Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: General Henry Heth's Account of Gettysburg and the Pennsylvania Campaign (Illustrated)

Henry "Harry" Heth ( December 16, 1825 – September 27, 1899) was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He is best remembered for inadvertently precipitating the Battle of Gettysburg, when he sent some of his troops of the Army of Northern Virginia to the small Pennsylvania village, according to his memoirs, to get some shoes.
Whether or not that’s true, Heth’s division did start the Battle of Gettysburg when it encountered Union cavalry commanded by John Buford, who maintained a defensive holding position to allow the Army of the Potomac’s I Corps to reach the fighting. Lee had ordered A.P. Hill to avoid a general engagement with the enemy before he could assemble his full army, but Heth's actions had now rendered that order moot.

Months after the battle, Heth wrote his account of the Pennsylvania Campaign, and it was preserved in The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. This edition of his official account includes illustrations and maps of the campaign, as well as pictures of the important commanders of the battle.