Richard Schaus's guest appearances

Richard Schaus

PA BOOKS on PCN

Addressing Gettysburg

History Tavern Podcast

Masterson Brown

Cory Pfarr

James Hessler

Eric Wittenberg

George Thomas

Garry Adelman

John Buford

George Spangler

Tom Huntington

Scott Mingus

Jeffrey McCausland

Sue Boardman

Thaddeus Stevens

Tom Vossler

Ronald Kirkwood

OwlTail

Author RIck Schaus stopped by the studio to talk about his book, co-written with Thomas J. Ryan, "Lee is Trapped and Must Be Taken" about the retrest from Gettysburg and George Meade's pursuit of Lee.    LBG Lewis Trott sits in as cohost.        Grab your copy of Thomas and Richard's book and decide for yourself if Meade could have destroyed Lee or not. Also  available on Audible.

Author RIck Schaus stopped by the studio to talk about his book, co-written with Thomas J. Ryan, "Lee is Trapped and Must Be Taken" about the retrest from Gettysburg and George Meade's pursuit of Lee.  LBG Lewis Trott sits in as cohost.    <a href="https://amzn.to/3rV0Ikp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Grab your copy of Thomas and Richard's book</a> and decide for yourself if Meade could have destroyed Lee or not. Also <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lee-Trapped-Must-Taken-Gettysburg/dp/B0861DRFHW/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> available on Audible</a>.

PATREON PREVIEW- "Lee Is Trapped and Must Be Taken" with Richard Schaus

The defeat at Gettysburg left Lee's army hobbled and in desperate need of returning to to friendlier territory south of the Potomac River. Heavy rain, however, flooded the Potomac, delaying Lee's retreat. Historian Richard Schaus talks about this understudied aspect of the Gettysburg campaign and whether Meade pursued the Army of Northern Virginia aggressively enough.

Richard Schaus - Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken

"Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken" focuses on the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg and addresses how Maj. Gen. George G. Meade organized and motivated his Army of the Potomac in response to President Abraham Lincoln's mandate to bring about the "literal or substantial destruction" of Gen. Robert E. Lee's retreating Army of Northern Virginia. As far as the president was concerned, if Meade aggressively pursued and confronted Lee before he could escape across the flooded Potomac River, "the rebellion would be over." The long and bloody three-day battle exhausted both armies. Their respective commanders faced difficult tasks, including the rallying of their troops for more marching and fighting. Lee had to keep his army organized and motivated enough to conduct an orderly withdrawal away from the field. Meade faced the same organizational and motivational challenges, while assessing the condition of his victorious but heavily damaged army, to determine if it had sufficient strength to pursue and crush a still-dangerous enemy. Central to the respective commanders' decisions was the information they received from their intelligence-gathering resources about the movements, intentions, and capability of the enemy. The eleven-day period after Gettysburg was a battle of wits to determine which commander better understood the information he received, and directed the movements of his army accordingly. Richard R. Schaus, Sergeant Major, U.S. Army (Ret.), served on active duty for more than 30 years in a variety of army and joint military intelligence assignments both at home and abroad. Rick is a lifelong student of the Civil War and American military history in general, and the Gettysburg Campaign in particular. Description courtesy of Savas Beatie.

"Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken" focuses on the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg and addresses how Maj. Gen. George G. Meade organized and motivated his Army of the Potomac in response to President Abraham Lincoln's mandate to bring about the "literal or substantial destruction" of Gen. Robert E. Lee's retreating Army of Northern Virginia. As far as the president was concerned, if Meade aggressively pursued and confronted Lee before he could escape across the flooded Potomac River, "the rebellion would be over." The long and bloody three-day battle exhausted both armies. Their respective commanders faced difficult tasks, including the rallying of their troops for more marching and fighting. Lee had to keep his army organized and motivated enough to conduct an orderly withdrawal away from the field. Meade faced the same organizational and motivational challenges, while assessing the condition of his victorious but heavily damaged army, to determine if it had sufficient strength to pursue and crush a still-dangerous enemy. Central to the respective commanders' decisions was the information they received from their intelligence-gathering resources about the movements, intentions, and capability of the enemy. The eleven-day period after Gettysburg was a battle of wits to determine which commander better understood the information he received, and directed the movements of his army accordingly. Richard R. Schaus, Sergeant Major, U.S. Army (Ret.), served on active duty for more than 30 years in a variety of army and joint military intelligence assignments both at home and abroad. Rick is a lifelong student of the Civil War and American military history in general, and the Gettysburg Campaign in particular. Description courtesy of Savas Beatie.

"Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken: Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg" with Richard Schaus