Total Brag - My Second Novel Has Just Been Published

Booklocker.com ^ | 12/1/10 | carton2531

[carton253]

You are a Southerner who is for freedom above all else. Got it!

[mojitojoe]

:)

[rockrr]

Yes, of course. Where are my manners?

Congratulations on what must have been a labor of love (and certainly no small feat). Best of luck in the sale of your book.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Achilles2000] If Jackson had survived, the first thing that would have happened would have been a victory at Gettysburg. Unlike Early, Jackson would have immediately occupied the high ground, and the battle would have been a replay of Marye’s Heights.

And if that had happened, Gettysburg would have been another minor battle of the campaign. The US Army would have found better ground, maybe at Pipe Creek, where they'd already surveyed defensive positions. Lee was going to have to attack at some point--the US Army was between him and Virginia.

How do you figure that?

One of George Meade's strategic objectives was to stay between Lee and D.C. ... and Longstreet's advice to Lee was precisely to use flank marches (like the Japanese used against the British in Malaya so effectively) to force Meade back or, better, to force him to attack.

I don't think any of Meade's divisions managed to get between Lee and the Potomac crossings.

[lentulusgracchus]

That and to keep Davis from spliting the army up and sending part in a fruitless attempt at saving Vicksburg.

New one on me but entirely credible. Edward Bonekemper asserts (and backs it up) that Lee's home-state devotion made him a ferocious competitor for resources with Bragg's Army of Tennessee (and may have doomed it, he suggests).

[Liberty Valance]

bttt

[Non-Sequitur]

New one on me but entirely credible.

Not new at all but one that has been documented by historians like Stephen Sears and Noah Andre Trudeau.

[Who is John Galt?]

(Thank you... ;>)