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"Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken" - Eleven Fateful Days After Gettysburg: July 4 to July 14, 1863 (Hardcover)
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"Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken" - Eleven Fateful Days After Gettysburg: July 4 to July 14, 1863 (Hardcover)
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Countless books have examined the battle of Gettysburg, but the
retreat of the armies to the Potomac River and beyond has not been
as thoroughly covered. "Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken": Eleven
Fateful Days after Gettysburg: July 4 to July 14, 1863, by Thomas
J. Ryan and Richard R. Schaus goes a long way toward rectifying
this oversight. This comprehensive study focuses on the immediate
aftermath of the battle and addresses how Maj. Gen. George G. Meade
organized and motivated his Army of the Potomac in response to
President Abraham Lincoln's mandate to bring about the "literal or
substantial destruction" of Gen. Robert E. Lee's retreating Army of
Northern Virginia. As far as the president was concerned, if Meade
aggressively pursued and confronted Lee before he could escape
across the flooded Potomac River, "the rebellion would be over."
The long and bloody three-day battle exhausted both armies. Their
respective commanders faced difficult tasks, including the rallying
of their troops for more marching and fighting. Lee had to keep his
army organized and motivated enough to conduct an orderly
withdrawal away from the field. Meade faced the same organizational
and motivational challenges, while assessing the condition of his
victorious but heavily damaged army, to determine if it had
sufficient strength to pursue and crush a still-dangerous enemy.
Central to the respective commanders' decisions was the information
they received from their intelligence-gathering resources about the
movements, intentions, and capability of the enemy. The eleven-day
period after Gettysburg was a battle of wits to determine which
commander better understood the information he received, and
directed the movements of his army accordingly. Prepare for some
surprising revelations. Woven into this account is the fate of
thousands of Union prisoners who envisioned rescue to avoid
incarceration in wretched Confederate prisons, and a
characterization of how the Union and Confederate media portrayed
the ongoing conflict for consumption on the home front. The authors
utilized a host of primary sources to craft their study, including
letters, memoirs, diaries, official reports, newspapers, and
telegrams, and have threaded these intelligence gems in an exciting
and fast-paced narrative that includes a significant amount of new
information. "Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken" is a sequel to
Thomas Ryan's Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg
Campaign, the recipient of the Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award
and Gettysburg Civil War Round Table Distinguished Book Award.
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