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Wednesday, April 14, 2021, at 8:30pm EST
CivilWarTalk Presents:
Richard R. Schaus
co-author of
Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken:
Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg: July 4 to July 14, 1863
In A Free Live Video Presentation
CivilWarTalk Presents:
Richard R. Schaus
co-author of
Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken:
Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg: July 4 to July 14, 1863
In A Free Live Video Presentation
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 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.
Richard R. Schaus, Sergeant Major, U.S. Army (Ret.), served on active duty for more than 30 years in a variety of army and joint military intelligence assignments both at home and abroad. He is a lifelong student of the Civil War and American military history in general, and the Gettysburg Campaign in particular.
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