Ralph Peters Reveals What Gettysburg Can Teach Us About What America’s Forgotten

‘Rather than being bronze or marble statues up on a plinth or pedestal, these were flesh and blood human beings with their own fears and dreads’

Ralph Peters Reveals What Gettysburg Can Teach Us About What America’s Forgotten (The Washington Free Beacon)

The Washington Free Beacon met with retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters at Gettysburg National Military Park to discuss Civil War history and American civic culture.

In the first installment of a three-part series, Peters talks about how a lifetime of studying the Civil War informed his understanding of citizenship and, later, his historical fiction.

"I wanted to write about it in a way that would bring the visceral aspects, the human aspects, to readers," Peters said. "Rather than being bronze or marble statues up on a plinth or pedestal, these were flesh and blood human beings with their own fears and dreads.

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