| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign. By Kent Masterson Brown. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xviii, 534 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2921-8.)

Gettysburg has inspired more books than perhaps any other battle in American history, but this is the first study devoted to the Confederate retreat from that engagement and the first to deal with logistical aspects of Gen. Robert E. Lee's raid into southern Pennsylvania. Kent Masterson Brown helps us to understand the enormous difficulties Lee had to contend with in order to bring his battered army home to Virginia, but he also argues that Lee took advantage of his last few days on Northern soil to gather as many supplies as possible and bring them back to Virginia. Both the successful retreat, which saved his army from capture or destruction, and his gathering of supplies were key elements in saving the Confederate cause in the eastern theater in 1863. Brown argues that Lee managed to salvage his army's fighting effectiveness as well as his reputation by conducting a retreat out of enemy territory.

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