Gettysburg: A Lovely Summer Morning (Illustrated);

In the league of great military memoirs, which includes such works as Barry Fixler's Semper Cool: One Marine's Fond Memories of Vietnam, this account of the Battle of Gettysburg by then Lieutenant Frank A. Haskell is one of the most moving, and honest accounts of battle ever written.

Gettysburg: A Lovely Summer Morning is a compilation of vintage civil war photos, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and a letter written by Franklin Aretas Haskell, Aide-de-camp to General John Gibbon. Haskell's letter was first published in 1898 as a book entitled The Battle of Gettysburg. Haskell wrote the letter to his brother shortly after his participation in the Battle of Gettysburg. He did not intend for it to be published commercially.