For Release: 2009-07-20 11:20:00
Retreat from Gettysburg, based on host and author Kent Masterson Brown's book of the same name, takes viewers on the very roads used by General Robert E. Lee's army to move 57 miles of quartermaster, subsistence, ordnance and ambulance trains and tens of thousands of seized horses, mules, cattle, sheep and other livestock across the South Mountain Range to the Potomac River. The program airs Thursday, Aug. 6 at 9/8 p.m. CT on KET1.The program, a comprehensive history of the Army of Northern Virginia's retreat from the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, also visits the key sites along those roads where Lee established defenses that delayed or defeated advances by General Meade's Union forces.
Retreat from Gettysburg is produced by Witnessing History, LLC. More information about KET programming and education services, as well as how to support KET, can be found at www.ket.org.
Contact: Amanda Stroud
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