Wasted Valor The Confederate Dead at Gettysburg (Gregory A. Coco) - GC Gettysburg and the 19th Maine helped

and the 19th Maine helped stop Pickett's Charge during the battle's climax

theirs has become the most famous broken friendship: Union general Winfield Scott Hancock and Confederate general Lewis Armistead

and still stands as the bloodiest single day in American military history

and his natural sense of humor has become legendary

Wasted Valor The Confederate Dead at Gettysburg (Gregory A. Coco) - GC Gettysburg and the 19th Maine helpedGreg Coco Hundreds of firsthand accounts describing the gruesome appearance of the sprawling and horrific Gettysburg battlefield meticulously describe the true cost of Civil War combat. Greg Coco, the legendary expert on Gettysburgs dead, painstakingly details the early round of burials and explains how Southern remains were identified (whenever possible) and removed in the early 1870s. Six maps identify the location of more than 100 burial sites.