Wasted Valor The Confederate Dead at Gettysburg (Gregory A. Coco) - GC Gettysburg

Wasted Valor The Confederate Dead at Gettysburg (Gregory A. Coco) - GC GettysburgGreg 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.

Art by Bonnie Marris

Release date: April 22

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