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
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Lewis A. Armistead was a Confederate general in the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War (1861–1865). Decorated for bravery during the Mexican War (1846–1848), the West Point dropout and widower earned a reputation as a tough, soft-spoken, and highly respected leader at such battles as Seven Pines (1862), Antietam (1862), and Malvern Hill (1862), and was known to his friends, ironically, as “Lo,” short for Lothario. At Gettysburg, on July 3, 1863, he helped to lead the frontal assault that came to be known as Pickett’s Charge. When Armistead, at the head of his brigade, reached the stone wall on Cemetery Ridge that protected the Army of the Potomac‘s Second Corps, he was shot and wounded more than once. The Union troops who fired the fatal shots happened to be commanded by one of Armistead’s closest friends, Winfield Scott Hancock. His death was immortalized in the 1993 film
It was Washington's misfortune to end up on the $1 bill. The portrait of what appears to be an effete old man in a wig has caused future generations of Americans to underestimate him.
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