To: LS
The Union had the better part of three or four corps (!!!) behind the initial deploymentsA union Corp was about the size of an oversized CSA Division. Union leadership was not up to snuff leading to smaller units/per officer.
8 posted on
07/03/2012 6:54:00 AM PDT by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
Absolutely right-—so you’re still talking about 50,000 men at minimum backing up a line that was facing . . . what? less than 5000 who survived the march across the open field? Idiotic. Absolutely idiotic. That charge alone should have shattered Lee’s myth.
12 posted on
07/03/2012 9:01:28 AM PDT by
LS
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