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Meade's Army - The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman (Hardcover)
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Meade's Army - The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman (Hardcover)
Series: Civil War in the North Series
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Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman served as Gen. George Gordon Meade's
aide-de-camp from September 1863 until the end of the Civil War.
Lyman was a Harvard-trained natural scientist who was exceptionally
disciplined in recording the events, the players, and his
surroundings during his wartime duty. His private notebooks
document his keen observations. Published here for the first time,
Meade's Army: The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman
contains anecdotes, concise vignettes of officers, and lively
descriptions of military campaigns as witnessed by this key figure
in the Northern war effort. Lyman may well be the finest chronicler
of the day-to-day experiences of a staff officer in the Civil War,
and his notebook entries have an immediacy, coming as close to
real-time reporting as possible. As combat raged, Lyman penciled
notations into his dispatch books, including exact times when Meade
issued orders and when units deployed. He later transformed his
notes into a coherent, historically accurate narrative, filling the
account with personal and military details that few others were in
a position to observe and including his sketches and hand-drawn
maps showing the positions of the army after every significant
movement. With Meade's Army, editor David W. Lowe has completed a
task that should have been undertaken long ago: a proper and
scholarly editing of Lyman's journals. The publication of this
significant resource will give historians and students of the Civil
War a clear understanding of the last great campaigns of the Army
of the Potomac and of the men who led it.
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