Through Their Eyes: A Novel of Gettysburg

By Matthew McLean

What Lincoln Feared, What Lee Risked, What Soldiers Endured

Three days. One battlefield. Every voice.

July 1-3, 1863. While Abraham Lincoln waits at a window in Washington counting the hours, Jefferson Davis pens a cautious letter he hopes Lee never needs to act on. Robert E. Lee rides toward the sound of guns he didn't plan to fire yet. And Private Thomas Brennan, feet bleeding in boots that never fit, checks his cartridge box for the tenth time and wonders if forty rounds will be enough.

Through Their Eyes tells the Battle of Gettysburg the way it was actually lived - not from a single heroic vantage point, but from every level of the war at once. Presidents and privates. Generals and surgeons. Union and Confederate. Each voice in the first person, each moment unfolding in real time across those three desperate days that decided a nation.

This is not one man's Gettysburg. It is everyone's.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GHRPS8VR
• ISBN13: 9798244708318
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"