Three Roads to Gettysburg

Praise for Three Roads to Gettysburg: “Tim McGrath's Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln and the Battle that Changed the Nation, braids the lives of these three men into the history of their times with rare dexterity and plain good writing. By centering his story on the Civil War's most important battle and the role each of the protagonists played in its approach and aftermath, McGrath manages to shift the focus of the train of events and produce a unique and original take on the war that made us who we are.” —Robert L. O’Connell, national bestselling author of Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman “Tim McGrath is a prodigious researcher and captivating writer. What an interesting angle to take three individuals—two well known, one less so—and interpose their careers and the journeys that brought them to opposing sides of a great battlefield and the speech that in its pointed brevity offered hope for binding up the nation’s wounds.” —Walter R. Borneman, author of Polk, The Admirals, and MacArthur at War “A powerful, well written, and deeply researched narrative, Three Roads to Gettysburg moves to its climax with steady control of its complex story, a fine addition to the accounts of the battle and the converging lives of its main participants, Lincoln, Lee, and Meade. It brings to the battlefield the two generals, and President Lincoln at the telegraph office in Washington, through a contrasting and complementary account of their lives and what got them there.” —Fred Kaplan, author of Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer