GDG- Gettysburg Microhistories: Day 2

[Alan D. Brunelle]

I've just finished reading some recently recommended books, and would 
like to thank all of you that took the time to provide these suggestions:

Devil's Den: A History and Guide by Garry E. Adelman and Timothy H. Smith
Gettysburgs Bloody Wheatfield by Jay Jorgansen (I also purchased 
Jorangansen's companion "The Wheatfield at Gettysburg: A Walking Tour")
Twilight at Little Round Top: July 2, 1863 The Tide Turns at Gettysburg 
by Glenn W. LaFantasia (the Norton book is on its way...)

As I've found is quite usual in this forum, the recommendations were 
excellent! I really enjoyed all three, and besides the topics at hand, 
each have helped me to better understand the happenings in the difficult 
to handle intersecting parts of the battlefield - due to the overlap, 
while reading about Little Round Top, you could see how activity at the 
area more formally covered in the Devil's Den impacted the actions on 
LRT (and vice versa); and likewise the overlap with the area in the 
woods separating the Den from the Wheatfield being covered in both of 
the first two books helped me understand the flow in those two regions 
much better. (Where to draw the line when doing one of these 
microhistories must be hard - where does the action at LRT end, and the 
Den begin? Same with the Den and Wheatfield, and so on, and so on...)

Having the walking tours for the Den and Wheatfield are very nice 
additions as well: I'm planning on spending quite a lot of time in this 
area later this summer - I'm figuring out some way to combine the tours 
of these two with the tour provided by Schultz and Wieck in their "The 
Battle Between the Farm Lanes". (Probably most of a couple of days to 
get in all three.)

When I had first asked for recommendations on Day 2 for this part of the 
field, Zack Fry had mentioned: 'R.L. Murray’s superb work “E.P. 
Alexander and the Artillery Action in the Peach Orchard”' I had then 
queried as to whether this book covered the infantry action as well, but 
I didn't see any answers on that one. In any event, I've ordered that 
one from Morningside Books.

If anybody out there has any other suggestions for works on the Peach 
Orchard, and/or the activities of the 2nd New Hampshire in that area, 
I'd appreciate it.

Thanks again,
Alan