![]() ![]() Ryan sets out to examine the Gettysburg campaign “day-by-day, hour-by-hour from mid-May to mid-July 1863 focusing on the movements and objectives of their opponents, and maneuver to gain the advantage,” and he certainly succeeds in doing so (xiv).Įssentially, Ryan tells a tale of two halves. ![]() Ryan does a masterful job of combatting this ironic lack of knowledge in Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign: How the Critical Role of Intelligence Impacted the Outcome of Lee’s Invasion of the North, June-July, 1863. Despite this fact, the tens of thousands of pages written about Gettysburg have focused on the minutiae of both army’s movements, the histories of individual units, and examinations (and re-examinations) of unit commanders. Intelligence, or the lack thereof, may have played the single-most important role in the outcome of the Gettysburg campaign. Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign by Thomas J. ![]()
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