With dramatic text and pictures, Gettysburg humanizes this crucial battle: the thoughts, emotions, and actions of the men who commanded, fought, and died there. As Abraham Lincoln said four months after the battle, those who died at Gettysburg gave their last full measure of devotion that the nation might experience a new birth of freedom. This is the story of those brave men. Prepared as a companion to Ron Maxwell's epic film Gettysburg, this book combines the verbal skills of historian James M. McPherson with the artistic ability of Mort Kunstler to tell the memorable story of the three days of Gettysburg and its aftermath. Illustrated and indexed.