Born in the South, I was a poor little white boy raised in the hood. I've worked in construction and am a veteran. I have been through significant things in life. Things that would make people fold. I've given millions of dollars away to people because money doesn't mean a thing to me, neither do material things. I'm at the end of my life, and I watched society regress back to the '70s.

Thousands of books and articles have been written about the Battle of Gettysburg. Almost every topic has been thoroughly scrutinized except one: Paul Philippoteaux's massive cyclorama painting The Battle of Gettysburg, which depicts Pickett's Charge, the final attack at Gettysburg. The Gettysburg Cyclorama: The Turning Point of the Civil War on Canvas is the first comprehensive study of this art masterpiece and historic artifact. This in-depth study of the history of the cyclorama discusse...