Race to the Potomac: Lee and Meade After Gettysburg, July 4-14, 1863

Details the tense post—Gettysburg pursuit, as Lee and Meade navigate danger and strategy, shaping the course of the Civil War.

Even before the guns fell silent at Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee was preparing for the arduous task of getting his defeated Confederate army back safely into northern Virginia. It was an enormous, complex, and exceedingly dangerous undertaking—all in a pouring rainstorm and all under the shadow of a possible attack from the Federal Army of the Potomac.

Lee first needed t...