Stay and Fight It Out

The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp’s Hill and the North End of the Battlefield (Emerging Civil War Series)

By: Kristopher D. White, Chris Mackowski

Narrated by: Bob Neufeld

July 1, 1863, had gone poorly for the Union army’s XI Corps. Shattered in battle north of the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, the battered and embarrassed unit ended the day hunkered at the crest of a cemetery-topped hill south of the village. Reinforcements fortified the position, which extended eastward to include another key piece of high ground, Culp’s Hill. The Federal line also extended southward down Cemetery Ridge, forming what eventually became a long fishhook.

July 2 saw a massive Confederate attack against the southernmost part of the line. As the Southern juggernaut rolled inexorably northward, Federal troops shifted away from Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill to meet the threat. Just then, the Army of Northern Virginia’s vaunted Second Corps launched itself at the weakened Federal right. The very men who, just the day before, broke the Union army resolved to break it once again.

The ensuing struggle—every bit as desperate and with stakes every bit as high as the more-famous fight at Little Round Top on the far end of the line—left the entire Union position in the balance. “Stay and fight it out,” one Union general counseled.

Confederates were all too willing to oblige.

Authors Chris Mackowski, Kristopher D. White, and Daniel T. Davis started their Gettysburg account in Don’t Give an Inch: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863—from Little Round Top to Cemetery Ridge. Picking up on the heels of its companion volume, Stay and Fight It Out: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863—Culp’s Hill and the Northern End of the Battlefield they recount the often-overlooked fight that secured the Union position and set the stage for the battle’s fateful final day.

©2023 Savas Beatie LLC (P)2024 Chris Mackowski and Kris White

Good content – but again the person reading it is just not good

I like the content of these books. I always seem to learn something that I did not learn before and I find myself rewinding to catch parts that peak my interest.
That being said the first two books in the series had a terrible narrator and this book is no exception. Different guy but he sounds like he's half dead. He keep saying battery one instead of battery "I" as in the letter I. Did nobody listen when he was talking?
Also, these guys absolutely hate Oliver Otis Howard.