Three roads to Gettysburg : Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the battle that changed the war, the speech that changed the nation / Tim McGrath.
"By mid-1863, the Civil War, with Northern victories in the West and Southern triumphs in the East, seemed unwinnable for Abraham Lincoln. Robert E. Lee's bold thrust into Pennsylvania, if successful, could mean Southern independence. In a desperate countermove, Lincoln ordered George Gordon Meade--a man hardly known and hardly known in his own army--to take command of the Army of the Potomac and defeat Lee's seemingly invincible Army of Northern Virginia. Just three days later, the two great armies collided at a small town called Gettysburg. The epic three-day battle that followed proved to be the turning point in the war, and provided Lincoln the perfect opportunity to give the defining speech of the war--and a challenge to each generation of Americans to live by. These men came from different parts of the country and very different upbringings: Robert E. Lee, son of the aristocratic and slaveholding South; George Gordon Meade, raised in the industrious, straitlaced North; and Abraham Lincoln, from the rowdy, untamed West. Lincoln's election to the presidency in 1860 split the country in two and triggered the Civil War. Lee and Meade found themselves on opposite sides, while Lincoln had the Sisyphean task of reuniting the country." -- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780593184394
- ISBN: 0593184394
- Physical Description: 517 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : Dutton Caliber, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
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- Includes bibliographical references ([461]-494) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Foreword -- Sone of the prairie -- Son of the South -- Son of the North -- Mexico and Washington -- The lighthousebuilder, the rail-splitter, and the marble model -- "And the war came" -- Emancipation and invasion -- Wednesday, July 1 -- Thursday, July 2 -- Friday, July 3 -- Thursday, November 19 -- Aftermath
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"By mid-1863, the Civil War, with Northern victories in the West and Southern triumphs in the East, seemed unwinnable for Abraham Lincoln. Robert E. Lee's bold thrust into Pennsylvania, if successful, could mean Southern independence. In a desperate countermove, Lincoln ordered George Gordon Meade--a man hardly known and hardly known in his own army--to take command of the Army of the Potomac and defeat Lee's seemingly invincible Army of Northern Virginia. Just three days later, the two great armies collided at a small town called Gettysburg. The epic three-day battle that followed proved to be the turning point in the war, and provided Lincoln the perfect opportunity to give the defining speech of the war--and a challenge to each generation of Americans to live by. These men came from different parts of the country and very different upbringings: Robert E. Lee, son of the aristocratic and slaveholding South; George Gordon Meade, raised in the industrious, straitlaced North; and Abraham Lincoln, from the rowdy, untamed West. Lincoln's election to the presidency in 1860 split the country in two and triggered the Civil War. Lee and Meade found themselves on opposite sides, while Lincoln had the Sisyphean task of reuniting the country." -- Provided by publisher.
