To: MplsSteve
Agree 100%.
Stuart could have flanked Little Round Top; it probably would have been over.
So many of the Civil War battles turned on the simplest of contingencies.
23 posted on
06/22/2018 12:04:45 PM PDT by
budj
(combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
To: budj
Stuart could have flanked Little Round Top; it probably would have been over. Stuart tried on the third day. Custer blocked him.
To: budj
"...So many of the Civil War battles battles throughout recorded history turned on the simplest of contingencies..."
"For want of a nail" didn't come out of a vacuum...that's for sure.
59 posted on
06/22/2018 12:30:51 PM PDT by
rlmorel
(Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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