Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children - Priest, John Michael
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"The fighting on the first day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, was heavy, confusing, and decisive. Much of it consisted of short and often separate simultaneous engagements or "firefights," a term the soldiers themselves often used to describe the close, vicious, and bloody combat. Several books have studied this important inaugural day of Gettysburg, but none have done so from the perspective of the rank and file of both armies. John Michael Priest's "Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children": The Defeat of John Reynolds's I Corps at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, rectifies this oversight"--

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"The fighting on the first day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, was heavy, confusing, and decisive. Much of it consisted of short and often separate simultaneous engagements or "firefights," a term the soldiers themselves often used to describe the close, vicious, and bloody combat. Several books have studied this important inaugural day of Gettysburg, but none have done so from the perspective of the rank and file of both armies. John Michael Priest's "Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children": The Defeat of John Reynolds's I Corps at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, rectifies this oversight"--
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Retired high school history teacher John Michael Priest has been interested in Civil War history since an early age. He is a graduate of Loyola College in Baltimore and Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. He enjoys studying and writing history with a grassroots-level perspective. John appeared on Discovery Channel's Unsolved History: "Pickett's Charge" (2002) and has written extensively about the Civil War. His most recent book was "Stand to It and Give Them Hell" Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced It from Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863 (2016). He and his wife live in Clear Spring, Maryland.