[alfa6]

Getting ahead of time a wee bit...

Somewhere at home I have a book on Gettysburg that proposes the theory that Picket’s Charge was to have taken place in conjunction with an attack by Stuart’s Calvary.

Unfortunately for Picket and the rest of the Confederate infantry Stuart ran into the Michigan Calvary units led by among others, Custer!

The Federal Calvary fought the Confederates to a stand still and left the Confederate infantry to the tender mercies of the entrenched Federal forces.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[BroJoeK]

alfa6: "Picket’s Charge was to have taken place in conjunction with an attack by Stuart’s Calvary."

There were to have been simultaneous attacks by:

1. Picket in the center.
2. Ewell in the north, to take Culp's Hill.
3. Stuart from behind to cut off Union retreat.
4. Support and follow-up by Longstreet in the South.

That every attack failed is blamed by Lee's admirers on his subordinates, especially ultimately, future Republican Longstreet, and by Lee-skeptics it's blamed on, among other reasons, Lee's woefully inadequate staff.