THE POLITICAL VIKING'S WAR ON WRONG: Debunking the Myths of Gettysburg, 150 Years Later: Historian Allen Guelzo

"Among the myths of Gettysburg that Guelzo debunks is that the battle was an accident – that Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and George Gordon Meade’s Army of the Potomac merely happened upon each other in the hills of South Central Pennsylvania. “No, it was not really an accident,” said Guelzo. “At least not more of an accident than any battle in the Civil War was.”