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The valorous but troubled career of the Civil War general best known for defending Little Round Top and averting a Union defeat at Gettysburg. The lieutenant colonel of a New York regiment and rising star in the Army of the Potomac, Gouverneur K. Warren performed heroically at Gettysburg. For his service at Bristoe Station and Mine Run, he was awarded command of the Fifth Corps for the 1864 Virginia campaign. But Warren’s peculiarities of temperament and personality put a cloud over his service at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania and cost him the confidence of his superiors, Grant and Meade. He was summarily relieved of his command by Philip Sheridan after winning the Battle of Five Forks, ...
G. K. Warren was an Army topographical engineer assigned to a project to map the United States west of the Mississippi River. This film is of that portion of his journal (July 10-August 4, 1856) covering the exploration of the Yellowstone River Valley. (MF 335a)
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.