Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: DoodleDawg
"...whether he would have been in Hill's place or Ewell's."

Probably both. Didn't he commanded both of those corps as one before his death? The Lee split it into two?

43 posted on 07/03/2019 11:41:15 AM PDT by circlecity
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies ]


To: circlecity
Probably both. Didn't he commanded both of those corps as one before his death? The Lee split it into two?

Lee's plan to split his army into three corps was begun long before Chancellorsville and would have happened regardless of whether Jackson had been killed or not. He had felt for some time that two corps of four divisions each was unwieldy. Lee would have started his campaign under the new organization and Ewell would have commanded the third corps.

46 posted on 07/03/2019 11:49:15 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson