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Should the Civil War have ended at Gettysburg? Did Meade blunder by not pursuing Lee afterwards and finishing the job? One would think this would be the central discussion of “Retreat from Gettysburg”. Nah. This is a deeply researched, all trees-no forest, review of Lee’s escape across the Potomac (and Meade’s delayed response). Step by step, unit by unit, mile by mile. I enjoyed reading of history happening in little towns where I grew up and played Little League baseball - also, sure this is great fodder for those deeply interested in Civil War logistics, but I was sorely disappointed that in the end the author simply concludes that maybe Gettysburg wasn’t so bad for the South because of all the successful foraging they’d done in Pennsylvania.