The Battle of Gettysburg: The Country, the Contestants, the Results

Copyright, 1935, by J. Horace McFarland Company
BY W. C. STORRICK, Litt.D. Retired Superintendent of Guides. For Twenty Years Connected with the Gettysburg National Park Commission
First edition, 1931 Second edition, 1935 Third edition, 1938 Fourth edition, 1944 Fifth edition, 1945 Sixth edition, 1946 Seventh edition, 1946 Eighth edition, 1947 Ninth edition, 1949 Tenth edition, 1949 Eleventh edition, 1951 Twelfth edition, 1951 Thirteenth edition, 1953 Fourteenth edition, 1954 Fifteenth edition, 1955 Sixteenth edition, 1956 Seventeenth edition, 1957 Eighteenth edition, 1959 Nineteenth edition, 1959 Twentieth edition, 1961 Twenty-first edition, 1962 Twenty-second edition, 1965 Twenty-third edition, 1966 Twenty-fourth edition, 1969
HARRISBURG, PA. THE McFARLAND COMPANY 1969
Map of the GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN Map showing country through which the armies approached Gettysburg
No one is better fitted to describe the Battle of Gettysburg and the National Park established on its site than Mr. William C. Storrick. Born a short distance from the field, he was seven years old at the time of the battle. He remembers the flight from home as the army drew near; he remembers also the return to a house which had been occupied by troops. Still more distinctly he recalls going to Gettysburg on November 19, standing with his hand clasped in his father’s, watching a doorway from which the President of the United States was shortly to appear. He shook hands with Lincoln, was awed by his great height, and listened eagerly to his plain and simple address.
For more than twenty years Mr. Storrick was connected with the Battlefield Commission, first in charge of the farms, then of the guide service as well. The history of the campaign which forms a part of this volume was prepared at the request of the War Department.
There is no corner of the field which Mr. Storrick does not know; there is no detail of its history which he has not studied; there is no disputed question of which he cannot give both sides. His clear and uncontroversial account of the battle is but an outline of his store of information upon which he plans to draw more largely in a volume of greater scope.