Posted on 07/03/2019 10:02:55 AM PDT by Perseverando
In a little less than one hour from now, exactly 156 years ago then men from Pickett’s, Pettigrew’s, and Trimble’s divisions set forth across the open ground towards the Union troops entrenched on the high ground around Cemetery Hill.
Really not all that long ago....
Ewell should’ve take that hill.
Lee should’ve listened to Longstreet.
Stuart should’ve been there by the 1st.
It wasn’t just one mistake that cost them the battle.
Do not forget about Vicksburg. It was just as important as Gettysburg.
Visitors to Gettysburg should also take the opportunity to visit President Eisenhower’s ranch, which can be reached by shuttle bus from the visitors center. It’s just a few miles from the battlefield and is filled with original artifacts from the time Eisenhower and his wife lived there during the 1950’s and 1960’s.
"The 29th Virginia was authorized in November, 1861, and was to contain seven companies under Colonel A.C. Moore and three companies at Pound Gap. However, this organization never took place. Moore's five companies from Abingdon and companies raised in the spring of 1862 evidently made up the nine-company regiment. The men were recruited from the counties of Fayette, Raleigh, Mercer, Wise, Russell, Tazewell, Wythe, and Carroll."
If Jackson had not been shot by his own men by mistake, Lee would have more than likely listened to him.
CSA 12 pounders did not have the distinctive bell shape at the end of the muzzle.
I had ancestors in the 1st, 6th, and 8th Florida and 18th Alabama. Have done a little research mostly on the 18th Alabama. I do think all of them were in a lot of battles.
Can’t recall about Gettysburg but probably.
Stuart’s cavalry unable to break through custard's cavalry in the rear and support pickett’s charge ...
lost opportunities ...
“For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it’s all in the balance, it hasn’t happened yet, it hasn’t even begun yet, it not only hasn’t begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it’s going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn’t need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose than all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.”
- William Faulkner
The 15th Alabama was definitely at Gettysburg.
There were several small things that if they had been different, the outcome would have been different... Like much of history.
It's unlikely that Jackson would have disagreed with Lee's plans.
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