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The battle for Little Round Top is a key plot point of Ward Moore's 1953 alternate history novel Bring the Jubilee. The 1974 novel The Killer Angels , and its 1993 film adaptation, Gettysburg , depicted a portion of this battle.
Bring the Jubilee is a 1953 alternate history novel by American writer Ward Moore. [2] [3]The point of divergence occurs in July 1863 when the Confederate States of America wins the Battle of Gettysburg and subsequently declares victory in a conflict referred to within the book as the "War of Southern Independence" on July 4, 1864, after the surrender of the United States of America.
Madison, New Jersey, USA. Died. January 29, 1978. (1978-01-29) (aged 74) Pacific Grove, California, USA. Joseph Ward Moore (August 10, 1903 – January 29, 1978) was an American science fiction writer. According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, "he contributed only infrequently to the field, [but] each of his books became something of a ...
The jonbar hinge in Bring the Jubilee, Ward Moore's 1953 novel of American Civil War alternate history, is the Confederate occupation of Little Round Top minutes before the Union's attempt, which leads to Lee's victory at the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. [7]
A look at what might have happened at Little Round Top had Joshua Chamberlain fought for the Confederacy rather than the Union. "East of Appomattox" (in Alternate Generals III) by Lee Allred. In the late 1860s, the CSA sends Ambassador Robert E. Lee to London to assure continued British recognition, and he finds unexpected challenges and even ...
American Civil War alternate histories are alternate history fiction that focuses on the Civil War ending differently or not occurring. The American Civil War is a popular point of divergence in English-language alternate history fiction. The most common variants detail the victory and survival of the Confederate States.
The 44th and 12th New York Infantry Monument[1] (39°47.475′N 77°14.221′W) [1] is a Gettysburg Battlefield memorial erected near the summit of Little Round Top to commemorate combat in the Battle of Little Round Top. The castellated building is the largest monument to a regiment on the battlefield, [2] is the 1st of only 2 Battle of ...
Lewis Padgett (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore) A scientist millions of years in the future, in two experiments with time machines, uses boxes of educational toys as test objects. One lands in the 19th century and influences Lewis Carroll's writing of the poem "Jabberwocky". The other arrives in 1942 and causes two children to ...