by Thomas J. Ryan El Dorado Hills, Ca.: Savas Beatie, 2015.. Pp. xxii, 482. Illus., maps, append., notes, biblio., index. $35.00. ISBN: 1611211786 Intelligence Operations on the Road to Gettysburg
Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign is very likely the first work that compares and contrasts Confederate and Federal efforts at gathering, using, and misusing strategic and tactical intelligence during the Gettysburg Campaign. Ryan, a former U.S. Department of Defense intelligence employee and the author of
“Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken”and other works, explores how Robert E. Lee, Joseph Hooker, and George G. Meade used intelligence to achieve specific goals from June through the July of 1863. He covers these events on a day-by-day, and often hour-by-hour basis, concentrating on the efforts of these commanders and their staffs to discern their opponent’s movements and objectives in order to adopt measures to ef