Main Point Books, Radnor Memorial Library and Radnor Historical Society welcome author Tim McGrath and his newest book "Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation."
This event will be in the Winsor Room at Radnor Memorial Library. RSVPS are requested via Eventbrite; walk-ins are welcome as space permits. Books will be for sale at the event; signed copies will be available at Main Point after the event.
About the Book
An epic, revelatory account of the Battle of Gettysburg, where George Meade, Lincoln's unexpected choice to lead the Union army, defeated Robert E. Lee and changed the course of the Civil War, from the award-winning author of James Monroe: A Life
By mid-1863, the Civil War, with Northern victories in the West and Southern triumphs in the East, seemed unwinnable for Abraham Lincoln. Robert E. Lee’s bold thrust into Pennsylvania, if successful, could mean Southern independence. In a desperate countermove, Lincoln ordered George Gordon Meade—a man hardly known and hardly known in his own army—to take command of the Army of the Potomac and defeat Lee’s seemingly invincible Army of Northern Virginia. Just three days later, the two great armies collided at a small town called Gettysburg. The epic three-day battle that followed proved to be the turning point in the war, and provided Lincoln the perfect opportunity to give the defining speech of the war—and a challenge to each generation of Americans to live by.
