Gettysburg: Crisis and Command

296 pp. This, the story of America's greatest battle, examines the strange events that led to the failures in command in both armies during the action. The mindsets of the four major commanders under Lee were to prove fatal to his plans. Likewise, the fiasco of Lincoln and his Secretary of War, Stanton, waiting until the last hour to replace Commanding General Hooker with General Meade would be almost as devastating to the North.