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Complete Gettysburg Guide: Audio Driving and Walking Tours, Volume 1: The Battlefield
More than two million people visit the battlefield at Gettysburg each year. It is one of the most popular historical destinations in the United States. Most visitors tour the field by following the National Park Service's suggested auto tour. That tour, however, misses crucial battle actions, monuments, markers, and other hidden historical gems that everyone should experience. With The Complete Gettysburg Guide: Audio Driving and Walking Tours, Volume 1: The Battlefield, visitors will finally be able to experience many of these sights and events and much more in this entertaining and informative audio tour based on the best-selling The Complete Gettysburg Guide (2009). Narrated by author J. David Petruzzi, the package booklet features maps and a stunning design by internationally acclaimed designer/cartographer Steven Stanley. A must-have for your tour of the park About the Authors: J. David Petruzzi is widely recognized as one of the country's leading Gettysburg experts. In addition to his numerous articles for a wide variety of publications, he is the author (with Eric Wittenberg) of bestsellers Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg (Savas Beatie, 2006) and (with Wittenberg and Michael Nugent) One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863 (Savas Beatie, 2008). Petruzzi is also a popular speaker on the Civil War Roundtable circuit and regularly conducts tours of Civil War battlefields.
Steven Stanley lives in Gettysburg and is a graphic artist specializing in historical map design and battlefield photography. His maps, considered among the best in historical cartography, have been a longtime staple of the Civil War Preservation Trust and have helped raise millions of dollars for the Trust through their preservation appeals and interpretation projects. Steve's maps have appeared in a wide variety of publications.
Steven Stanley lives in Gettysburg and is a graphic artist specializing in historical map design and battlefield photography. His maps, considered among the best in historical cartography, have been a longtime staple of the Civil War Preservation Trust and have helped raise millions of dollars for the Trust through their preservation appeals and interpretation projects. Steve's maps have appeared in a wide variety of publications.
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First published May 1, 2009
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J. David Petruzzi
5 books2 followersJ. David Petruzzi is an award-winning Civil War cavalry historian. He is the author of many articles for a wide variety of publications, and has written or co-authored several books.
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November 16, 2009
As promised, this is THE complete guidebook to Gettysburg with an extensive tour of the current battlefield and town. It is more extensive than any guidebook you will get from the Visitor Center.
I'm not sure if one is available but this book begs for a CD version you can play in your car to follow while driving around.
I'm not sure if one is available but this book begs for a CD version you can play in your car to follow while driving around.
November 4, 2017
Very informative, easy to follow. It will be put to good use.
March 8, 2017
Darn good book. I made dozens of trips to the Gettysburg battlefield with my family; unfortunately my father tended to visit the same darn places time after time! Currently I don't live close enough to Gettysburg to make a day trip to the battlefield, but the next time I'm in the area, this book is coming with me! Mr. Petruzzi points out monuments and places of interest that I wasn't aware of, including small actions just off the main battlefield such as Hunterstown and Fairfield.
July 25, 2014
In the annals of Gettysburg works, to which there are many, there are also a collection of guides which have been published throughout the years. This guide on Gettysburg is a little different than some of the others because of where it takes you. In The Complete Gettysburg Guide, J. David Petruzzi and Steven Stanley take us to the battlefield, but they also take us to the field hospitals, the cemeteries and the other locations pertinent to the Gettysburg Campaign. With a few other interesting tidbits of information, the detail presented in this work truly makes it the complete guide to the Gettysburg Campaign.
J. David Petruzzi is an award winning Civil War cavalry historian and the author of many articles for many different magazines. He has coauthored books with Eric Wittenberg called Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg and with Michael Nugent and Wittenberg called One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863. He has recently authored The Gettysburg Campaign in Numbers and Losses with Steven Stanley. Steven Stanley is a local Gettysburg graphic artist specializing in historic map sets and battlefield photography. He has created some of the best maps in the industry and has work with Petruzzi before on Gettysburg. For this work, he is credited with maps and photography.
Among the slew of Gettysburg guides, the biggest difference this one brings to the table is the locations it covers. The usual is performed with the first, second and third day of battle, but they also deal with Brinkerhoff’s Ridge, Hunterstown and Fairfield. These are locations many other guides do not even venture. Petruzzi offers a narrative which goes along with the maps and picture set and in a beige box throughout the narrative are driving directions to the next location. These directions go as far as to tell you how many point miles it will be until the next stop. These types of directions are crucial into touring battlefields not completely known about the area. One of the things I found to be a strong point for the book was the tour of the town of Gettysburg itself. Many people just drive through the town and do not even consider what they are looking at when the town itself was part of the major retreat on the first day of combat. Other chapters are detailed tours of both cemeteries starting with the Soldiers National Cemetery then going to Evergreen Cemetery. The book shines with the chapter on the rock carvings on the battlefield which made even me go and look for them. Overall this guide is definitely a complete guide of the Gettysburg Campaign due to the close attention to detail and overall comprehensive nature of the book.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants a little more to their vacation than just the three days of combat. If you want to spend hours on the battlefield looking for things unusual than the regular tour takes you, then you need this book in your collection. If you want to venture outside of the regular path of the tour, then you need this book in your collection. If you want a guide to the town and the field hospitals throughout the borough of Gettysburg, then you need this book in your collection. Petruzzi and Stanley once again have proven their knowledge on this timeless battlefield.
Matthew Bartlett - Gettysburg Chronicle
J. David Petruzzi is an award winning Civil War cavalry historian and the author of many articles for many different magazines. He has coauthored books with Eric Wittenberg called Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg and with Michael Nugent and Wittenberg called One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863. He has recently authored The Gettysburg Campaign in Numbers and Losses with Steven Stanley. Steven Stanley is a local Gettysburg graphic artist specializing in historic map sets and battlefield photography. He has created some of the best maps in the industry and has work with Petruzzi before on Gettysburg. For this work, he is credited with maps and photography.
Among the slew of Gettysburg guides, the biggest difference this one brings to the table is the locations it covers. The usual is performed with the first, second and third day of battle, but they also deal with Brinkerhoff’s Ridge, Hunterstown and Fairfield. These are locations many other guides do not even venture. Petruzzi offers a narrative which goes along with the maps and picture set and in a beige box throughout the narrative are driving directions to the next location. These directions go as far as to tell you how many point miles it will be until the next stop. These types of directions are crucial into touring battlefields not completely known about the area. One of the things I found to be a strong point for the book was the tour of the town of Gettysburg itself. Many people just drive through the town and do not even consider what they are looking at when the town itself was part of the major retreat on the first day of combat. Other chapters are detailed tours of both cemeteries starting with the Soldiers National Cemetery then going to Evergreen Cemetery. The book shines with the chapter on the rock carvings on the battlefield which made even me go and look for them. Overall this guide is definitely a complete guide of the Gettysburg Campaign due to the close attention to detail and overall comprehensive nature of the book.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants a little more to their vacation than just the three days of combat. If you want to spend hours on the battlefield looking for things unusual than the regular tour takes you, then you need this book in your collection. If you want to venture outside of the regular path of the tour, then you need this book in your collection. If you want a guide to the town and the field hospitals throughout the borough of Gettysburg, then you need this book in your collection. Petruzzi and Stanley once again have proven their knowledge on this timeless battlefield.
Matthew Bartlett - Gettysburg Chronicle
July 5, 2024
Excellent and detailed tour guide of the Gettysburg battlefield, covering not only military actions, but also the area's field hospitals, sites in the town itself, and prominent graves in the Soldier's and Evergreen Cemeteries.
July 15, 2009
A little too heavily geared towards those wussy calvarymen. I still enjoyed the other tours and the driving guide is great...Maybe soon someone will make a bicycling one.
November 2, 2009
It's a thorough tour of the landscape around Gettysburg on the days before, during and after the epic battle.
February 12, 2017
Love this book - I've marked it finished, but I know I'll be referring to it over & over!
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