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Over the past 3 years the BGES has selected one key commander at Gettysburg and has devoted a program specifically to that individual and the battle through their eyes—in order we have scrutinized Dan Sickles, James Longstreet and George Gordon Meade.  This year we have selected Robert E. Lee and this is particularly fortuitous because BGES in coordination with Ed Bearss, our instructor Parker Hills and the National Geographic Society expects to have released our newest book—Receding Tide:  How Vicksburg and Gettysburg Changed the Civil War.  The book will have the most insightful and comprehensive look at Gettysburg in many years.

Lee was clearly an offensive minded officer who had seen military success by taking aggressive and audacious steps to capture and advantage on his opponents—a trait he had learned in the Mexican American War and which followed him through the next 17 years of his career.  He had been a successful office under the watchful eye of the Confederate President, Jefferson Davis and whose confidence he enjoyed.  Gettysburg would test that relationship.

We are going to look at this campaign differently than other Gettysburg studies and tours do—if you went on our Meade program last year you will understand that we are going to look at Lee, his footsteps, his plans and his command of his subordinates.  We will be on and about the battlefield but more importantly for this study we will be on and about his footsteps considering the evolving intelligence and how it impacts on his plans and expectations.  When we are finished you will say “I get it!”

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