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image: Image from page 17 of "Gettysburg; the story of the battle of Gettysburg and the field, described as it is on the fiftieth anniversary, 1863-1913" (1913) Identifier: gettysburgstoryo01penn Title: Gettysburg; the story of the battle of Gettysburg and the field, described as it is on the fiftieth anniversary, 1863-1913 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidgettysburgstoryo01penn) Year: 1913 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1913) (1910s (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1910) ) Authors:  Pennsylvania Railroad (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorPennsylvania_Railroad) Subjects:  Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectGettysburg__Battle_of__Gettysburg__Pa___1863) Publisher:  [Philadelphia?] (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisher_Philadelphia__) Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorThe_Library_of_Congress) Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorSloan_Foundation)   Text Appearing Before Image: Lutheran Theological Seminary. The old building used as hospital 15   Text Appearing After Image: Buford ReynoJds 2d Maine Battery Chambersburg Pike, McPherson Ridge Appreciating the importance of getting into thewoods first, Merediths troops, popularly known asthe Iron Brigade, under the command of ColonelMorrow, of the 24th Michigan, were ordered forward onthe double quick. They were filled with enthusiasm,calling out to Doubleday, as they passed him: *If wecant hold the woods, where will you find the men thatcan: Archers Brigade crossed Willoughby Run and madefor the woods just as the Iron Brigade entered it.The fighting was bitter. Reynolds, with his staff, was viewing it from a pointjust on the edge of the woods nearest the town, whena bullet from one of the enemys sharpshooters struckhim in the back of the head, as he turned to watch thereserve posted between the woods and the ridge. Thebullet passed clear through the skull and came out nearhis eye. He fell dead, almost instantly, without a word, i6 and the Union forces were without a commander. Gen-eral Doubleday, as the ra Sun Tzu at Gettysburg:4of4: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Bevin Alexander (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_audible_1?ie=UTF8&search-alias=audible&field-keywords=Bevin+Alexander) (Author), Edoardo Ballerini (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_audible_2?ie=UTF8&search-alias=audible&field-keywords=Edoardo+Ballerini) (Narrator), Audible Studios (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_audible_3?ie=UTF8&search-alias=audible&field-keywords=Audible+Studios) (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Tzu-Gettysburg-Ancient-Military/dp/B0053ET46E/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593913242&sr=1-2 Ten major battles or campaigns that could have been won by using the principles of The Art of War.  Imagine the impact on world history if Robert E. Lee had listened to General Longstreet at Gettysburg and withdrawn to higher ground instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line. Or if Napolon, at Waterloo, had avoided mistakes he'd never made before. The advice that would have changed the outcome of these crucial battles is found in a book on strategy written centuries before Christ was born.  Lee, Napoleon, and Adolf Hitler never read Sun Tzu's The Art of War; the book only became widely available in the West in the mid-20th century. But as Bevin Alexander shows, Sun Tzu's maxims often boil down to common sense, in a particularly pure and clear form. The lessons of contemporary military practice, or their own experience, might have guided these commanders to success. It is stunning to see, however, the degree to which the precepts laid down 2,400 years ago apply to warfare of the modern era.