Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken: Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg, July 4-14, 1863
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- Co-authors Thomas J. Ryan and Richard R. Schaus, take an in-depth look at the Gettysburg commanders as they moved their armies in the crucial days following the Battle of Gettysburg.
Central to the respective commanders’ decisions was the information they received about the movements, intentions, and capability of the enemy. Using officers’ reports, enlisted men’s letters, newspapers, and civilian recollections, the authors assess the intelligence available to each commander. They present the eleven-day period after Gettysburg as a battle of wits to determine which commander better understood the information he received, and how he directed the movements of his army accordingly. Prepare for some surprising revelations.
Our speaker, co-author Rick Schaus, is a retired Sergeant Major, U.S. Army. He served on active duty for more than 30 years in a variety of army and joint military intelligence assignments both at home and abroad. Rick is a lifelong student of the Civil War and American military history in general, and the Gettysburg Campaign in particular.
The book, “Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken,” is the winner of the Edwin C. Bearss Scholarly Research Award and is available from Amazon in hardback, Kindle, and audio versions.
Copies of the book can be purchased here:
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Love your video's! I always eat at Dobbins House when we are in Gettysburg.
Glad you like them!
The man is an excellent story teller...
Great presentation.
THEY SHOULD TURN UP THE VOLUME.
Enjoyed Learning about this period in the Civil War Thank you for the information! Well done!!!
Fantastic video! Thanks
Thanks!
Trust me, if Jackson was there the history books would be telling a different story!
Well done! Enjoyed it thoroughly!
That very last part with Lincolns quote summed up what happened perfectly.
Attention Ted Turner. Tom Hanks Mr. Spielberg...anybody. This part of the battle needs a mini series.
Excellent, where should Meade have utilized his pontoon train?
Excellent!
Lee and Jackson were unstoppable!
Nonsense. Jackson was a no show at the seen days. Jackson performed poorly at Antietam. At Frederiksberg, only Jackson's line was breached. South is defeated with Jackson or without.
@@shiloh6519 You need to do more reading. Antietam was a 2 front battle with Jackson conquering his objective and then sending his light division to save Lee from defeat! He did all that with their battle plans in the unions hands!
@@shiloh6519 Jackson line was breached for what 30 minutes!?! lol! The union was slaughtered at Fredericksburg!
@@shiloh6519 Jackson wasn’t at Antietam idiot! He was too busy conquering Harpers Ferry. He didn’t need to be there to help Lee. He sent his light division from over 20 miles away to mop up the Union!
Lee and Jackson never won a battle outside of VA. Check yourself before you wreck yourself. 😂
I would have liked to hear if Lincoln's desire to prevent the withdrawal of the ANV was realistic and why more of an attempt wasn't made to stop it? When and where was the best opportunity; July 6 by Buford at Williamsport?
There was zero mention of how beat up the Army of the Patomac was. I was on a tour recently of Gettysburg. Every horse in the army needed shoes. They had no rations to feed the men until the 5th. Not to mention casualties and burying the dead was especially important because of Northern Civilian opinion of the war.
I don’t claim to know very much but I thought some of these issues would be mentioned…
@@jackstraw6880it is also very hard to impress upon JohnQPublic the cataclysmic nature of those three days, unless they like you and I have walked the fields of Gettysburg and studied the minute actions of the individual units and soldiers. Gettysburg took everything the AOP had to win it, and it was a damned close run thing. I personally think that it wasn’t just Meade, but most of the Army really wasn’t up to the task of overtaking and killing the Army of Northern Virginia. They were tired as all hell.
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You made some good points. This guide does not consider recent information about the condition of the army of the Potomac. Meade 5 days before the battle inherits an army without a decent supply system to feed horse's mules and men. Stuart s raid before the battle and other things kept the supply system from being restored until after the campaign. Despite the deficiencies this was the army of the Potomacs 1st win against Lee's army. Also Lincoln's call of destruction of Lee's army was irresponsible because he and his people. Had no clue what the real situation of what was going on. This talk guide just parrots the same old inaccurate points about the battle rather than applying more recent information making the situation more understandable. I find very little reason to accept much information this guy highlights.
One last point worth highlighting is after the campaign 16,000 horses scores of mules died. In the mater of 3 days an unfed horse could die. Soldiers accounts mention of many horses and mules diying in droves. If you cant take care of the livestock you have no way to get things done.
Meade is vilified inappropriately.he tried and the fighting was quite fierce. But Lee pulled off a masterpiece withdrawal. A critical ‘battle’ in civil war; had the other union troops not directly under Meades command closed with Lee, the war would have ended at least a year earlier.
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Obviously, Lee was never anywhere close to being trapped. Abraham Lincoln was a meddlesome buffoon.
Lee had Gettysburg won but didn't follow up
Please explain? What stopped Lee from following up? Thanks!
Now check out recently passed author/historian Shelby Foote trilogy of the Civil War and his great interviews on youtube plus him being interviewed on Ken Burn's series......
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