New Gettysburg Campaign Study Receives Prestigious Award

Originally published December 2019 · p. 15

CANFIELD, Ohio—The Mahoning Valley Civil War Round Table has awarded its 2019 Hugh G. Earnhart Civil War Scholarship Award to Thomas J. Ryan and Richard R. Schaus for their groundbreaking work about the retreat from Gettysburg, “Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken,” Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg, July 4-14, 1863. Named after one of the round table’s founding members, the award is presented to recipients for their outstanding contributions in the field of Civil War historiography. In this new study of the retreat from Gettysburg, the co-authors bring their years of experience in the military and intelligence fields into their research and writing. Following the events of the Confederate retreat and Union pursuit from Gettysburg through the lens of military intelligence, the narrative chronicles each army’s movements, day-by-day, and the intelligence used by each army’s commander to make those movements. Readers will appreciate the thorough research of sources relating to the Bureau of Military Information, the Provost Marshal General, and many other previously unpublished accounts found within. As readers of Civil War titles published by Savas Beatie have to come expect, excellent maps by cartographer Hal Jespersen aptly support Ryan and Schaus’ work. Deep research, penetrating analysis, and conclusions, the text is written in an easy-toread manner, “Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken” will remain a definitive voice in the field. Founded in 1982 by Professor Hugh Earnhart, the Mahoning Valley Civil War Round Table has grown into a nationally recognized roundtable. This is only the second time this award has been presented. About Mahoning Valley Civil War Round Table

The Mahoning Valley Civil War Round Table has been in existence since the early 1980s. Throughout the years, the MVCWRT has enjoyed the company of many renowned local, regional, and national speakers, including Ed Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus with the National Park Service; former Executive Director of Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier, A. Wilson Greene; Wayne Motts, Chief Executive Officer of the National Civil War Museum, and scores of others. The MVCWRT has also spent dozens of hours volunteering on the Gettysburg battlefield, as part of the Adopta-Position at Gettysburg National Military Park, as well as building trails at Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park. For the past ten years our organization has also donated raised funds to over twenty different historic sites and their missions of preservation and interpretation.