{"product_id":"2940013274976","title":"THE STAR OF GETTYSBURG","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I.  THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY\u003cbr\u003e   II.  AHORSE WITH SHERBURNE\u003cbr\u003e  III.  JACKSON MOVES\u003cbr\u003e   IV.  ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK\u003cbr\u003e    V.  FREDERICKSBURG\u003cbr\u003e   VI.  A CHRISTMAS DINNER\u003cbr\u003e  VII.  JEB STUART'S BALL\u003cbr\u003e VIII.  IN THE WILDERNESS\u003cbr\u003e   IX.  CHANCELLORSVILLE\u003cbr\u003e    X.  THE NORTHERN MARCH\u003cbr\u003e   XI.  THE CAVALRY COMBAT\u003cbr\u003e  XII.  THE ZENITH OF THE SOUTH\u003cbr\u003e XIII.  GETTYSBURG\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE STAR OF GETTYSBURG\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HEAD OF THE FAMILY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA youth sat upon a log by a clear stream in the Valley of Virginia,\u003cbr\u003emending clothes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe showed skill and rapidity in his homely task.  A shining needle\u003cbr\u003edarted in and out of the gray cloth, and the rent that had seemed\u003cbr\u003ehopeless was being closed up with neatness and precision.  No one\u003cbr\u003ederided him because he was engaged upon a task that was usually\u003cbr\u003eperformed by women.  The Army of Northern Virginia did its own sewing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Will the seam show much, Arthur?\" asked Harry Kenton, who lay\u003cbr\u003eluxuriously upon the leafy ground beside the log.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Very little when I finish,\" replied St. Clair, examining his work with\u003cbr\u003ea critical eye.  \"Of course I can't pass the uniform off as wholly new.\u003cbr\u003eIt's been a long time since I've seen a new one in our army, but it will\u003cbr\u003ebe a lot above the average.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I admire your care of your clothes, Arthur, even if I can't quite\u003cbr\u003eimitate it.  I've concluded that good clothes give a certain amount of\u003cbr\u003emoral courage, and if you get killed you make a much more decent body.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"But Arthur St. Clair, of Charleston, sir, has no intention of getting\u003cbr\u003ekilled,\" said Happy Tom Langdon, who was also resting upon the earth.\u003cbr\u003e\"He means after this war is over to go back to his native city, buy the\u003cbr\u003emost magnificent uniforms that were ever made, and tell the girls how\u003cbr\u003eLee and Jackson turned to him for advice at the crisis of every great\u003cbr\u003ebattle.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We surely needed wisdom and everything else we could get at\u003cbr\u003eAntietam--leadership, tenacity and the willingness to die,\" said Dalton,\u003cbr\u003ethe sober young Virginia Presbyterian.  \"Boys, we were in the deepest\u003cbr\u003eof holes there, and we had to lift ourselves out almost by our own boot\u003cbr\u003estraps.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarry's face clouded.  The field of Antietam often returned to him,\u003cbr\u003ealmost as real and vivid as on that terrible day, when the dead lay\u003cbr\u003eheaped in masses around the Dunkard church and the Southern army called\u003cbr\u003eforth every ounce of courage and endurance for its very salvation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Antietam is a month away,\" he said, \"and I still shudder at the name.\u003cbr\u003eWe didn't think McClellan would come up and attack Lee while Jackson was\u003cbr\u003eaway at Harper's Ferry, but he did.  How did it happen?  How did he know\u003cbr\u003ethat our army was divided?\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069960503536,"sku":"2940013274976","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013274976_p0.jpg?v=1763579155","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013274976","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}