Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two Friends at the Turning Point of the Civil War

Tom McMillan sets the record straight on the Civil War friendship between Union general Winfield Hancock and Confederate general Lewis Armistead. Part biography and part history, this book clarifies the record with new information and fresh perspective, reversing misconceptions about an amazing story of two friends that has defined the Civil War.

Tom McMillan was a sportswriter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for ten years and vice president of communications for the Pittsburgh Penguins for twenty-five years. He currently serves on the board of trustees of the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, the board of directors of the Friends of Flight 93 National Memorial, and the marketing committee of the Gettysburg Foundation. His previous books are Flight 93: The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11 (Lyons, 2014) and Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native Sons Who Came Home to Fight as Confederate Soldiers (Regnery, 2017), winner of the 2017 Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award. McMillan lives in Pittsburgh.