The Bravest of the Brave

Bravest of the Brave: Pennsylvania's Civil War Generals (ISBN 9780615278438) was published in 2009 by Urban and Urban Co. It has biographies of almost all of the Civil War generals from Pennsylvania. It mainly concentrates on three of the greatest generals from the state (George Meade, Winfield Hancock, and John Reynolds).
Urban uses the personal stories of the lives of officers and connects them with his own stories (especially in his retelling of Zook's early life).
It is currently carried in Several stores in Gettysburg. It is also carried in Barnes and Noble.
The book has been given positive attention and reviews from the media. . The author was praised by local radio talk show host/dj Erica Funke in 2009.
Urban was born in Harveys Lake in 1991 and graduated Lake Lehman High School in 2009.He was accepted at Wilkes University but decided to attend Gettysburg College (a small and prestigious private college in Pennsylvania).
Two talks on the subject of the book were given to the Wyoming Valley Civil War Squaretable. They
The article on the defense of Culp's Hill by George Greene's brigade received wide attention. It was published in the January 2009 issue of the Gettysburg Magazine. It is cited in Project Muse- a scholarly collection of articles.
http://www.gettysburgmagazine.net/?q=content/issue-40
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_military_history/v073/73.3.swik.html
http://www.timesleader.com/TheDallasPost/community/L-L_senior_is_Civil_War_buff_01-25-2009.html
http://www.timesleader.com/TheDallasPost/community/L-L_senior_to_present_program_on_civil_war_01-04-2009.html
http://www.timesleader.com/pittstondispatch/news/Civil_War_Roundtable_begins_12th_year_Sept__11_08-30-2008.html
http://www.timesleader.com/community/Names_and_faces_01-01-2009.html

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