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To: Leaning Right

Things may have been different if Stonewall Jackson had been there. Lee relied on him quite a bit.


23 posted on 07/30/2025 9:19:51 AM PDT by Doche2X2
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To: Doche2X2
“ Things may have been different if Stonewall Jackson had been there. Lee relied on him quite a bit.”

Perhaps. Jackson has been mythologized. People forget his failures. He disappeared during the battle of 7 days and he was the only southern General whose lines were completely breached at Fredericksburg. Not saying he wasn’t a good General, he was. But he had his failures.

26 posted on 07/30/2025 9:24:42 AM PDT by circlecity
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Jackson was really good in the Valley and in the Wilderness of northern Virginia, and was just OK everywhere else. He performed poorly in the 7-days. It would largely have depended on “which Jackson” showed up in Gettysburg. I would say that Jackson would have likely taken Culp’s Hill on the first day, so the “real battle” probably would have taken place at the Pipe Creek line a few days later.


35 posted on 07/30/2025 9:46:47 AM PDT by Tallguy
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