Gettysburg's Peach Orchard

A “fascinating illumination of little-known accounts and personalities” by two experts on the Battle of Gettysburg ( Civil War News ). The historiography of Gettysburg’s second day is usually dominated by the Union’s successful defense of Little Round Top—but the day’s most influential action occurred nearly one mile west along the Emmitsburg Road, in farmer Joseph Sherfy’s peach orchard. This is the first full-length study of this pivotal action. On July 2, 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee