And Malvern Hill. You would think that a general who had already done it once to his own troops and seen it done to Union troops by Burnside at Fredericksburg would have known better than to send his men up a defended hill.
One would think so.
General Longstreet said to General Lee before the assault “General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arrayed for battle can take that position.”