<div>&ldquo;[A] stirring narrative of the common soldier&rsquo;s experiences on the southern end of the battlefield on the second day of fighting at Gettysburg.&rdquo; &mdash;Civil War News &ldquo;Stand to It and Give Them Hell&rdquo; chronicles the Gettysburg fighting from Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top on July 2, 1863, through the letters, memoirs, diaries, and postwar recollections of the men from both armies who struggled to control that &ldquo;hallowed ground.&rdquo; John Michael Priest, dubbed the &ldquo;Ernie Pyle&rdquo; of the Civil War soldier by legendary historian Edwin C. Bearss, wrote this book to help readers understand and experience, as closely as possible through the written word, the stress and terror of that fateful day in Pennsylvania. Nearly sixty detailed maps, mostly on the regimental level, illustrate the tremendous troop congestion in the Wheatfield, the Peach Orchard, and Devil&rsquo;s Den. They accurately establish, by regiment or company, the extent of the Federal skirmish line from Ziegler&rsquo;s Grove to the Slyder farm and portray the final Confederate push against the Codori farm and the center of Cemetery Ridge, which three Confederate divisions&mdash;in what is popularly known as Pickett&rsquo;s Charge&mdash;would unsuccessfully attack on the final day of fighting. &ldquo;&lsquo;Stand to It and Give Them Hell&rsquo; puts a human face on the second day of the nation&rsquo;s epic Civil War battle . . . Mike Priest has taken a familiar story and somehow made it fresh and new. It is simply first-rate.&rdquo; &mdash;Lance J. Herdegen, award-winning author of Union Soldiers in the American Civil War &ldquo;Remarkable . . . Priest&rsquo;s distinctive style is rife with anecdotes, many drawn from obscure diaries and letters, artfully stitched together in an original manner.&rdquo; &mdash;David G. Martin, author of The Shiloh Campaign</div>

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"Stand to It and Give Them Hell"

<div>A fresh examination of Pickett&rsquo;s Charge, drawing from numerous soldiers&rsquo; accounts&mdash;includes maps and illustrations. Both a scholarly and a revisionist interpretation of the most famous charge in American history, Into the Fight uses a wide array of sources, ranging from the monuments on the Gettysburg battlefield to the accounts of the participants themselves, to rewrite the conventional thinking about this unusually emotional, yet serious, moment in our Civil War. Starting with a fresh point of view, and with no axes to grind, Into the Fight challenges all interested in that stunning moment in history to rethink their assumptions. Praise for the work of John Michael Priest &ldquo;[A] stirring narrative of the common soldier&rsquo;s experiences on the southern end of the battlefield on the second day of fighting at Gettysburg.&rdquo; &mdash;Civil War News &ldquo;Priest&rsquo;s distinctive style is rife with anecdotes, many drawn from obscure diaries and letters, artfully stitched together in an original manner.&rdquo; &mdash;David G. Martin, author of The Shiloh Campaign</div>

Into the Fight

<div>An immersive Civil War history, Nowhere to Run is a riveting account of the one of the most devasting battles between the Union and Confederate armies. At 12:00 a.m. on May 4, 1864, Ulysses S. Grant and George G. Meade&rsquo;s Army of the Potomac began crossing the Rapidan River in an effort to turn the strategic right flank of Robert E. Lee&rsquo;s Army of Northern Virginia. Confederate reaction was swift. Richard E. Ewell&rsquo;s Second Corps and Ambrose P. Hill&rsquo;s Third Corps moved to meet the advancing Union infantry, artillery, and cavalry in the heavy terrain known simply as &ldquo;The Wilderness,&rdquo; a sprawling area of second growth scrub oak, brush, and gullies, interspersed with meandering creeks in Virginia. Inside this difficult terrain one of the largest and bloodiest battles would consume two days and thousands of men. Nowhere to Run is the story of the men and their officers who fought and died in the horrific fighting. With Civil War historian John Michael Priest&rsquo;s customary thoroughness, specially drawn maps, and extensive documentation, readers will experience the battles just as the men themselves saw it, and wrote about it, from their own eyes and their own pens. </div>

Nowhere to Run

<div>In Victory Without Triumph: The Wilderness May 6th &amp; 7th, 1864, John Priest meticulously details the vicious infantry fighting along the Plank Road, Longstreet's counterstrike against the II Corps, the cavalry operations of both armies near Todd's Tavern, and John B. Gordon's daring assault against the Army of the Potomac's right flank. Embellished with 38 detailed, two-color maps, Victory Without Triumph enables the reader to follow the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia through the last two days of the campaign which signaled the advent of Ulysses S. Grant into the Eastern theater of the war. John Priest has turned meticulous research into a gripping story that engages the reader from the very first page. No civil war studies collection can be considered complete without the acquisition of Victory Without Triumph.</div>

Victory without Triumph

<div>“The best battlefield first-person compilation I have read . . . Here it all is—the tactics, the movement, the truth about warfare.” —The Civil War Times In Antietam: The Soldiers’ Battle, historian John Michael Priest tells this brutal tale of slaughter from an entirely new point of view: that of the common enlisted man. Concentrating on the days of actual battle—September 16, 17, and 18, 1862—Priest vividly brings to life the fear, the horror, and the profound courage that soldiers displayed, from the first Federal cavalry probe of the Confederate lines to the last skirmish on the streets of Sharpsburg. Antietam is not a book about generals and their grand strategies, but rather concerns men such as the Pennsylvanian corporal who lied to receive the Medal of Honor; the Virginian who lay unattended on the battlefield through most of the second day of fighting, his arm shattered from a Union artillery shell; the Confederate surgeon who wrote to the sweetheart he left behind enemy lines in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania that he had seen so much death and suffering that his “head had whitened and my very soul turned to stone.” Besides being a gripping tale charged with the immediacy of firsthand accounts of the fighting, Antietam also dispels many misconceptions long held by historians and Civil War buffs alike. Seventy-two detailed maps—which describe the battle in the hourly and quarter-hourly formats established by the Cope Maps of 1904—together with rarely-seen photographs and his own intimate knowledge of the Antietam terrain, allow Priest to offer a substantially new interpretation of what actually happened.</div>

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Books By John Michael Priest (5 Books)

"Stand to It and Give Them Hell"

Into the Fight

Nowhere to Run

Victory without Triumph

Antietam

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