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Hi folks.

Many fine books have been written on Gettysburg, but I highly recommend a newish take on the battle by Ralph Peters called Cain at Gettysburg. Very well written, historically accurate, and he approaches the subject from some different angles. It's almost as fine a novel as the Killer Angels. Some say better. Either way it is a great read. After a few chapters I had to fire up a scenario to reenact some of the action.

Regards, CJ.

conjotter,

I agree that it is a great read and I like Peter's as a writer. I have read Ralph Peter's other books, which he wrote with his pen name of Owen Parry, the Abel Jones series, “Faded Coat of Blue” and “Bold Sons of Erin”, see below :

"Thousands of Irishmen serve valiantly on the fields of battle, yet others deny that the South's rebellion is any concern of theirs. Amid maddening rumors and lingering superstitions, an effort to draft more Irishmen into the army leads to a violent confrontation. A local death threatens to become an international crisis.

At the request of President Lincoln, Union Major Abel Jones follows the trail of guilt from a windswept graveyard to the killing fields of Fredericksburg - and soon learns that no one really wants to know the truth behind the general's murder. While heartbreaking revelations tear at his own family, Jones must work his way through encounters with Irish secret societies and past the distrust of men and women for whom starvation and oppression are recent memories. Political agendas disregard mere facts, and even the dead general might not be the man he first seemed".

Chamberlain