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This Day In History
July 1, 1863
First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg
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Posted on 07/01/2007 5:23:20 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: mainepatsfan
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posted on
07/01/2007 6:24:41 AM PDT
by
don-o
(“I don`t expect politicians to solve anyone's problems.The world owes us nothing” Bob Dylan)
To: Otho
He would have at least tried at any rate.
To: StoneWall Brigade
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posted on
07/01/2007 6:25:55 AM PDT
by
don-o
(“I don`t expect politicians to solve anyone's problems.The world owes us nothing” Bob Dylan)
To: don-o
If you mean his grave site I believe it’s in Richmond.
To: mainepatsfan
God bless the memory of the fighters for liberty.
25
posted on
07/01/2007 6:27:43 AM PDT
by
Lee'sGhost
(Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
To: don-o
To: mainepatsfan
No. I mean on July 1. Lee was going into battle and his cavalry under the command of Jeb Stuart was, uh, off somewhere else.
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posted on
07/01/2007 6:29:01 AM PDT
by
don-o
(“I don`t expect politicians to solve anyone's problems.The world owes us nothing” Bob Dylan)
To: ReleaseTheHounds
In 2005, I visited Gettysburg and Antietam the same day. I was especially impressed with Antietam—Sharpsburg, to Southern partisans. It’s less of a tourist trap than Gettysburg, and the area doesn’t seem to have changed much since 1862. The infamous cornfield where thousands were killed is still used for growing corn.
To: mainepatsfan
Southerners, myself included, tend to have a somewhat romantic view of the Civil War, excuse me the war of northern aggression (even though we shot first), that leads one to believe that the South had a chance of achieving victory. When from the very beginning the south lost battle after battle. Mr David J Eicher wrote a book, The Longest Night, a single volume military history of the civil war, that gives the reader an understanding of the overall war dynamic that histories of individual battles don’t convey. And that dynamic is undeniable, the South was loosing from the beginning. If the boy general had moved down the peninsula the war would probably ended years earlier and many lives might have been saved. Oh well, what is is.
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posted on
07/01/2007 6:31:37 AM PDT
by
Nuc1
(NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
To: don-o
Ah sorry. On July 1st I believe Stuart was up near Carlisle.
To: mainepatsfan
Yes, the National Parks people need more money (or something); the major battlefields in Virginia are poorly marked. There is no bus tour. No tour guides except at Fredricksburg. You rent a tape and take the auto tour but you drive on REAL fast highways with people wanting to do seventy behind you.
It just does not work. Fredricksburg is almost all privatized and built up. The guide there points to a swale in a public road to show where 8000 men were hit.
Sad.
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posted on
07/01/2007 6:33:24 AM PDT
by
kjo
To: battlegearboat
I always thought that Grant’s campaign against Vicksburg is the most brillant operation ever conducted by the US Army in the field.
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posted on
07/01/2007 6:34:30 AM PDT
by
ops33
(Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
To: Fiji Hill
I just love that area of the country.
To: AnnGora
Actually, Vicksburg began celebrating Independance Day again in 1944. On June 6th the community had lost a number of men at D-Day.
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posted on
07/01/2007 6:35:15 AM PDT
by
kjo
To: mainepatsfan; All
R.E. Lee monument at the location where he observed Pickett's Charge on the 3rd day
The 26th North Carolina monument near the Lee monument. In my opinion, the most striking and beautiful monument on the battlefield.
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posted on
07/01/2007 6:36:03 AM PDT
by
Jackknife
( "It's not a real party 'til somebody breaks something.")
To: Nuc1
Yeah I don’t think many casual history observers appreciate how close McClellan was to ending the war in 1862.
To: kjo
It is. I don’t know what type of plans the parks are planning for the upcoming 150th Civil War anniversaries but it’d be nice if some improvements were made.
To: mainepatsfan
Buford won Gettysburg for the Union before the “battle” started.
38
posted on
07/01/2007 6:38:48 AM PDT
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(The Republican party of today is the Whig party of the 1850's.)
To: ops33
If not the most brilliant it’s certainly near the top.
To: Otho
Definitely. Jackson was Lee’s true tactical master. His brilliance for shaping the battlefield to the strengths of the South undoubtedly were his strong point. Gettysburg would have been far different than it was had he been there.
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posted on
07/01/2007 6:41:31 AM PDT
by
Pistolshot
(We sleep safe, knowing good men and women are willing to do violence on your behalf.)
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