Chancellorsville and Gettysburg (FULL Audiobook)

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Abner DOUBLEDAY (1819 - 1893)

Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter in 1861. Two years later, after a series of battles (including Antietam, where he was wounded), Doubleday took over a division in the Army of the Potomac's 1st Corps.

These are his memoirs of service in two of the War's great campaigns. At Chancellorsville, a very promising start made by General Hooker against Lee's Confederate forces fell to a defeat when, in Doubleday's estimation, normal and prudent precautions against surprise in the heavily-wooded battlefield were not carried out; he also seemingly apologizes for Hooker's lack of leadership during the battle as a result of his having been stunned by a cannon ball hitting the post against which he was leaning.

After Chancellorsville, Hooker was replaced as Army Commander by General George Meade. Doubleday describes the curious circumstances that led the two opposing armies to meet at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. When Doubleday's superior, General John Reynolds, was killed by a sharpshooter on the first day's battle, he took over the 1st Corps and fought it well against converging Confederate divisions that badly outnumbered him. The Corps was forced by battle losses to retire, but its desperate fight bought the time needed for Union reinforcements to pour into Gettysburg and thus prevent a defeat in detail.

General Howard of the XIth Corps replaced Doubleday as the senior commander on the field, and mistakenly wrote to Meade that 1st Corps had routed after practically no fighting. Thus, when Meade arrived, he removed Doubleday from command of 1st Corps, replacing him with a more junior general from another Corps. The snub would embitter Doubleday against Meade. This book is in part Doubleday's revenge, as he picks apart Meade's indecision after the battle was essentially won, with the repulse of the famous Pickett's Charge. In his view, Meade could have won the war at that moment. (Summary by Mark Smith)
Genre(s): War & Military Fiction, *Non-fiction, History
Language: English (FULL Audiobook)

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[AllMnM]

thank you mark smith from SC all your librivox book readings are amazing :D

[nedaCFilms]

Best narrator, Mark is the very best.

[timmy]

Now that quarantined is a lifestyle, I will have lots of time for this

[StephenPike]

Excellently read. A lot of Librivox books are somewhat badly read. I applaud the effort nonetheless. This, however, is well done.
Also, this a great book and thorough. Considering when it was written, the prose reads as much more modern than many of its contemporaneous literary brethren i.e. "it holds up". Overall it's an interesting book that is full of firsthand details which I find other (later) works to be missing and helps one understand these battles as more than just a history lesson but rather grounds them by using said "firsthand details".
Thanks to both the narrator and theposter.

[artie]

Good read I wonder if this was Doubleday's way to discredit Meade and exonerate his actions during the Chancellorsville's battle.

[Albukhshi]

Is there one for Edward Porter Alexander's memoir? It's an excellent read, and I'd love to hear it here.

[-PanzerRabbit-]

Abner doubleday...
geez I don't know if I'm gonna like this....

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[timmy]

Little roundtop would also figure in the Indian wars

[archiethomas]

Is this the Doubleday the book company is named after?

[irockuroll]

Overall, I really enjoyed this.
I don’t like the fact that Doubleday repeatedly stated that this would decide if freedom or slavery would rule the northern states.
I don’t know much but the south was not trying to take over the north or trying to make slave states of the north.
The south wanted slavery in the states that succeeded.
So, this is a fallacy and should not be taught as truth.

[jeffrokag]

Why do I dislike everything from liverbox? I'm sorry, it's so bad.

[electronbeing]

i noticed this guy cant pronounce the word "railroad" very well at all. i did however, noticed he pronounced a lot of other words correctly and up to my standards

[richardportman]

We know that you have suffered. We have graveyards everywhere. Why do you wear that trump flag? It is disgraceful for you to support him.

[billcaracofe]

I enjoy the reader, thank you Sir, but this book is garbage.