Posted on 01/05/2018 9:50:10 AM PST by C19fan
Like Hannibal, I wanted to rank powerful leaders in the history of warfare. Unlike Hannibal, I sought to use data to determine a general’s abilities, rather than specific accounts of generals’ achievements. The result is a system for ranking every prominent commander in military history.
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Lee was deeply religious and I suspect that he thought that somehow the god of battle would tilt things his way.
The Civil War was the first war with embedded media.
Gee the Union Army never made a frontal assault.....
Actually. in the main, Confederates Generals were great tacticians and Union Generals excelled at logistics. Of course there were exception either way.
It had been less than 2 months since Lee’s victory at Chancellorsville. I think your assessment is the correct one, but Lee probably was a little deluded by the crushing blow he dealt the AoP on May 6th.
The AoP had remarkable recuperative powers. That army took terrible beatings for 2 years — until Gettysburg that is.
What record? Lee was on the west flank of the line of ridges that made up the Union Position during Pickett’s assault on Cemetery Ridge . Cress Ridge is to the East of that line of ridges, including Culp’s Hill. Did Stuart have signalmen on Culp’s Hill to relay messages?
made lots of them. some succeeded, most failed. Just like Lee’s frontal assaults. But when a Union general did it he was a tactically inept butcher. When Lee did it was tactical brilliance at its best. At least to the lost cause folks.
Pickett was correct.
Thanks for that.
Until recent years I didn't know that Stuart had a role on day 3, it was never emphasized.
Then a few years back I started hearing that, oh, that Stuart, he was key to a Pickett's charge victory, by attacking the Union rear would join up & rout them.
Also, iirc, Ewell was going to finally take Culp's hill, making victory inevitable.
Your explanation here tells us why traditional Gettysburg histories said so little about Stuart's end run.
On both the 2nd and 3rd days of the battle. Lee’s orders to General Ewell were discretionary as to taking Culp’s Hill. They essentially said if he saw an opportunity to take the hill he could do so. Lee never issued a direct order for Ewell to take Culp’s Hill.
this so yankee’s placid ability to spread to the face of the world his most perfect ignorance of clueless arrogant moron is certainly the most fascinating trait of your people.
from a pure point of view of an entomologist
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