Last lecture in the series on Gen. Meade.  At the end of July 1863, the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac returned to the line of the upper Rappahannock.  After a brief respite, both Lee and Meade expected the next phase of the Gettysburg campaign to begin shortly. Instead, in the span of seven weeks, three major cavalry battles were fought altering strategic decision-making connecting Gettysburg and the Bristoe Station/Mine Hill campaigns which would decided whether Meade would have a Pennsylvania victory.

Speaker, Jeffrey William Hurt is the Director of the Texas Military Forces Museum at Camp Mabry in Austin, TX. He is the recipient of the Chicago Civil War Round Table Edwin Cole Bearss Award for Outstanding Civil War Scholarship (2022).

The program is presented as a public service by the North Jersey Civil War Round Table.