Gettysburg As They Saw It: The Battlefield the Soldiers Knew (Shaun C.GRENAN/AMP) CD author of Shiloh: Conquer or

author of Shiloh: Conquer or Perish and The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West

gay author’s literary coming-of-age in New York during the AIDS crisis

and landed safely on the other side with several feet to spare

Heroic surgeons resolutely worked around the clock to save lives

It loomed like a dark cloud over the country’s birth at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and shaped the most important nodes of American history before the Civil War

Gettysburg As They Saw It: The Battlefield the Soldiers Knew (Shaun C.GRENAN/AMP) CD author of Shiloh: Conquer orSince July 4th, 1863, the Gettysburg battlefield has been changing. The hundreds of thousands of men, horses, wagons, and cannon changed the face of the landscape forever during the three horrific days of battle. After the armies moved on, the fallen were buried, the hospitals closed up, and throngs of tourists began to arrive over the decades. The millions of tourists, alongside modern industry, construction, roads, restaurants, entertainment,