Mistake by Lee
Should have taken high ground first afternoon
Can’t win forever in a strategic long shot war anyhow
“Mistake by Lee. Should have taken high ground first afternoon”
That was a failure by Baldy Ewell. Ewell had inherited Stonewall Jackson’s division upon Jackson’s death at The Wilderness just 2 months before Gettysburg.
Jackson, the old professor of artillery at VMI, would never have halted his troops before taking Cemetery Ridge. Ewell halted, letting Meade take control of the high ground.