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A little less than two years earlier, Gouverneur K. Warren was the engineering officer who noticed that Round Top was undefended and who, on his own initiative, directed a brigade of infantry to the top. Thus saving the Union right flank on the second day of Gettysburg and ensuring the Union victory over Lee.
George Pickett. Disaster at Gettysburg, disaster at Spotslyvania Court House, disaster at Appomattox. George Pickett was a disaster!
Interesting, thank you.
My paternal great-great grandfather fought in this battle as part of the 56th N.C. Infantry, C.S.A.
It was quite a rout by the Yankees from what I recall.
Hence, the phrase, “Put a fork in him”...
There are some good photos of the battlefield here:
http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc2/fiveforks1.htm
last night I watched a BBC made movie on the IFC channel called C.S.A. Confederate States of America
It was history rewritten about what happens when the Confederacy wins the Civil War, Lincoln is kicked out of the country, the South arises as a friend to Hitler and practices an Aryan policy and slaves are commonplace in the 21st. century.
Weird, gotta love the Brits though they know drama.
When General Grant took over the as field commander of the entire US Army, leaving General Meade as the Army of the Potomac commanding general, he was faced with an army that lacked talent in the General officer corps, not only because of the McClellan influence, but because so many were also political appointments. General Grant seemed to understand the limitations President Lincoln was handing him, both militarily and politically, and used the Army of the Potomac as best he could, and that to brutally wear down General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in bloody clash after bloody clash.
As noted earlier, Warren alerted the Union Army of the exposed left flank at Little Round Top and whose action prevent the South from turning the Union flank. But General Warren was a micro-manager. At least once he frustrated General Grant’s request for swift action, earning him Grant’s mistrust, if not his ire.
At the action at Five Forks, General Sheridan failed to locate the Confederate line properly, giving Warren instructions to deploy his Corp about 3 miles East of where he should have. Unfortunately, a damaged bridge held Warren up for couple of hours, aggravating the easily excitable Sheridan. Once in the vicinity of five forks, Warren deployed his divisions perfectly for the supposed Confederate positions he faced, gave good clear instructions, and sent his Corp into the Confederate lines. Only the left most division made contact, while the other two division simply kept moving forward, even to the point of losing contact with the other Corp divisions.
Warren quickly realized what was going on, and seeing that his division commanders were failing to keep contact with the rest of the Corp ran off to find his divisions and get them pointed in the right direction. By doing so, he left his one engaged division on its own, obliging Sheridan to take control when things got sticky for them. Meanwhile, Warren caught up with his divisions and eventually turning them, landed in the Confederate rear changing a hard fought Union victory into a full route of the Confederates.
Unfortunately, the fiery Sheridan, only focused on having to take control of one of Warren’s division due to Warren’s absence, and as Sheridan was already equipped with Grant’s pre-approval to deal with Warren as he saw fit, relieved Warren on the spot.
It is a shame that General Warren was treated this way due to circumstances that he should not have been blamed for. The record shows that in a sea of mediocre generals, Warren could be counted as, at the very least, competent, and a far site better than most of Grant’s other corps commanders.
The NappyOne
Stonewall could have soundly whipped 27,000 yankees with half what Pickett had, even after marching them 30 miles overnight!
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