| Gettysburg | |
| Border: | yes |
| Author: | Newt Gingrich William R. Forstchen |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Alternate history novel |
| Publisher: | Thomas Dunne Books |
| Release Date: | June 12, 2003 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages: | 384 (1st edition) |
| Isbn: | 978-0-312-30935-0 |
| Isbn Note: | (1st edition) |
| Dewey: | 813/.6 21 |
| Congress: | PS3557.I4945 G48 2003 |
| Oclc: | 51559226 |
| Followed By: | Grant Comes East |
Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War is an alternate history novel written by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen.[1] It was published in 2003. It is the first part in a trilogy in which the next books are respectively Grant Comes East and Never Call Retreat.
In 1863, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia are victorious at the Battle of Gettysburg (not the United States' Union Army, which won in reality). Instead of attacking the Union line on July 2, 1863, Lee conducts a broad turning movement and forces the Army of the Potomac to attack him in a favorable position. Gettysburg becomes something of a footnote in the main battle, which takes place at Union Mills in Maryland. The defeat at Union Mills is a grave setback to the Union Army, but it alone does not end the war or determine its outcome.
The book brings an opposing view to Bring the Jubilee, published fifty years earlier in 1953, which assumes that a Union defeat in Gettysburg would have led to a complete defeat and catastrophic collapse of the North.