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Gettysburg: The Last Invasion Allen C. Guelzo, Knopf, 2013, $35 William Faulkner famously wrote, “For every Southern boy fourteen years old…there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863.” In this masterful work, Allen Guelzo points out that the time of attack, like everything else we claim …
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